Quotes

The heart is able to bury deep and well what is urgently desires to forget.

A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor. Justice in some mysterious way makes up for violence.

A man of limited vision is hard to bear with in any sphere in which he is invested with power, but intolerable in the army.

The feeling of self-assurance derived from physical achievement always transfers itself to the mental sphere.

Was it not the most wonderful thing on earth to be able to help one's fellow-creatures? I now knew that it was the only thing that was worth while.

One can run away from anything but oneself.

Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.

People who are so much at the mercy of their moods should never be given serious responsibilities.

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

Only a numskull is pleased at being a so-called 'success' with women, only a dunderhead is puffed up by it. A real man is much more likely to be dismayed at realizing that a woman has lost her heart to him when he can't reciprocate her feelings.

Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?

If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price.

The word 'service' comes from serving, and serving means being dependent.

When a dozen men are harnessed to the same cart, one always pulls harder than the others, and when it's a question of promotion and seniority, it's easy to tread on the toes of the man ahead of you. At every word one utters one has to be on one's guard; one's never quite sure whether it isn't going to arouse the disapproval of the big bugs; there's always a storm in the offing.

States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.

After experiencing profound emotions, one sleeps profoundly.

The sight of a wedding always has a disturbing effect on young girls; at such moments a mysterious sense of solidarity with their own sex takes possession of them.

Anger makes one not only malign but sharp-sighted.

There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him to find himself unexpectedly confronted with a task which he has to accomplish entirely on his own initiative and by his own efforts.

A doctor should never try to cure the incurable.