Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
- Topic: Friendship, Peace, Solitude
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Nobody is more inferior than those who insists on being equal.
Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
A friend is as it were a second self.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.
