But these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying ...
Beware of the person with two faces.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
A person's heart is in his feet.
A poor person is often worthy.
The covetous person is always in want.
A friendly person is never a good-for-nothing.
A virtuous person sleeps well.
Human history has no unique pattern of intelligibility.
... scar tissue was the strongest tissue in the human body.
It takes two to have a fight.
Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.
Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.
That the other suffers has to be learned; and it can never be learned fully.
Diversity, not uniformity, is what works.
Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.
Protect art. It is the antidote to the innate barbarism of the human race.
It is through love that the door to Heaven is opened on earth.
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.