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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
Sep 30, 2025
If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.
Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
These violent delights have violent ends.
It's love that makes the world go round.
'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure
Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
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