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What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.

When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health!

Ah well, 'tis the way of the world
births and deaths, births and deaths.

Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time.

All perishes, all decays, all is born again.

Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles.

Bread without love is like grass without salt
the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Who strikes man with love
God or the Devil?

Only the dead know the truth.

There is no beast more cruel than man.

When a woman weeps, it is a man's shame.

The moon was so young, so strange, even as a young girl who is dreaming and is afraid to tell her dreams; and it was shining only for itself.

Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.

It's a powerful instrument, dynamite
nothing like it for a convincing argument!

Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.

The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

To succeed in life one needs two things
influence and a lucky star.

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.