Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

No ends, simply means.

I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.