One must live well to know what living is.
BERTOLT BRECHTOne must live well to know what living is.
BERTOLT BRECHTOf all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople who understand everything get no stories.
BERTOLT BRECHTOnly bad generals need heroes.
BERTOLT BRECHTGeneral, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
BERTOLT BRECHT…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
BERTOLT BRECHTTemptation to behave is terrible.
BERTOLT BRECHTShow them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
BERTOLT BRECHTWho struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
BERTOLT BRECHTLife is short and so is money.
BERTOLT BRECHTDon’t tell me peace has broken out.
BERTOLT BRECHTIf you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTI don’t trust him. We’re friends.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
BERTOLT BRECHTLittle changes are the enemies of great changes.
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