Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to read more

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is read more

The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because th

I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one.

I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one.

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Trouble rides behind and gallops with him.
[Fr., Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lui.]

Trouble rides behind and gallops with him.
[Fr., Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lui.]