Agnes Repplier quotes

" It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. " # Happiness # Freedom # Power

" There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. " # Nudity

" Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. " # Humor # Irony # America

" People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. " # Absurdity

" Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. " # Humor # Laughter # Success

" It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. " # Leisure # Life and Living # Pleasure

" There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania... " # Egotism # Education # Enjoyment

" In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin. " # Fallibility # Failure # Friends and Friendship

" We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. " # Laughter

" The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. " # Perception