Dr_Joseph > Dr_Joseph's Quotes

“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism

“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
― Blaise Pascal

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

“Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
― Maxim Gorky

“When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”
― Maxim Gorky

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!”
― Maxim Gorky

“What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.”
― Maxim Gorky

“إن الكنائس في المدن الكبيرة مليئة بالفضة والذهب اللذين لا حاجة لله بهما ، في حين يرتجف على ابواب الكنائس عدد لا يحصى من الفقراء ينتظرون بفارغ الصبر هبات نحيلة تُلقى في أيديهم المفتوحة.”
― Maxim Gorky, Mother

“The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.”
― Maxim Gorky, Literary Portraits

“You will not drown the truth in seas of blood”
― Maxim Gorky

“نحن أبناء تلك الحياة المظلمة نحس كل شيء، لكنه يصعب علينا وضعه في كلمات فنخجل لكوننا نفهم لكن نعجز عن التعبير عما نفهم”
― Maxim Gorky

“In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty face.”
― Maxim Gorky, My Childhood

“لقد افترس الجوع النفوس وصنع مخلوقات ليس لها وجه لإنسان.
إنهم لا يعيشون، إنهم يتعفنون في حضن بؤس لا نستطيع أن نتصوره، وتقيم السلطات حولهم نطاقاً من الحراسة اليقظة، تتربص بهم كالغربان لترى ان كنت تملك كسرة خبز زائدة . فاذا رأت تلك الكسرة انتزعتها منك ، ولطمتك ،فوق ذلك ، على فمك”
― Maxim Gorky, Mother

“in music one can hear everything.”
― Maxim Gorky, Mother

“تبدو السعادة دائما صغيرة عندما تمسكها بين يديك..لكنك اذا تركتها أدركت فورا كم كانت كبيرة وغالية..”
― Maxim Gorky

“ربما كنا جميعا شديدي الحرص على مشاعرنا، نخفيها و نعيش بالفكر و نسرف، و هذا ما افسدنا بعض الشيء، إذ إننا نفكر بدلا من ان نحس.”
― Maxim Gorky, Mother

“Be the flame, not the moth.”
― Giacomo Casanova

“one who makes no mistakes makes nothing”
― Giacomo Casanova

“If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.”
― Giacomo Casanova

“The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.”
― Casanova, The Story of My Life

“Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.”
― Giacomo Casanova, The Story of My Life

“I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

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― Giacomo Casanova

“As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.”
― Giacomo Girolamo Casanova, Geschichte Meines Lebens

“There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.”
― Casanova