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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Ini tidak dilakukan antara orang tua, sayangku.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.

Gejala awal cinta pada pria adalah rasa malu; gejala awal cinta pada wanita adalah keberanian.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Inti kebahagiaan dalam hidup ini adalah cinta yang diikrarkan.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.