Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.
I almost regret having helped you in your researches & having told you what I did
But can I not learn philosophy as well as other things?β βMy son, philosophy, as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven.
Si ha sempre fretta di essere felici, signor Danglars, perchè quando uno ha sofferto a lungo, stenta a credere alla felicità .
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
