I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of superterrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of superterrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."

The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of its diseases is called man.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment

On this earth, one pays dearly for every kind of mastery . . . . For having a specialty one pays by also being the victim of this specialty. But you would have it otherwise -- cheaper and fairer and above all more comfortable -- isn't that right, my dear contemporaries?