It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking;"

"A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul."

"The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before..."

"True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception."

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

"The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom."