Bertolt Brecht Quotes and Quotations
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness. People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long. Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear. What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy. When praying does no good, insurance does help. War is like love, it always finds a way. What's joy to one is a nightmare to the other. Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels. It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive. What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. Everyone needs help from everyone. People remain what they are, even when their faces fall to pieces. It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive. Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so. What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other. It isn't important to come out on top; what matters is to be the one who comes out alive. Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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