Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.
Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.
Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.
What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.
The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.
It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?
The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.
Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.
People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.
I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.