You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children? Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are! Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>