Which Quotes

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.