Quotes from Paul Hoffman

Cuanto más viejo me hago más propenso a creer que si el amor ha de juzgarse por sus efectos visibles, se parece más al odio que a la amistad.

his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration — there was the sound there too of anger and resentment. She would not look at him because she did not want to be in his presence. She hated him and he (how could he not?) hated her in return.

Revenge is the best revenge.

Intelligence has many shades, but rage is the same colour everywhere. Humiliation tastes the same to everyone.

Only inferior minds speak or write in order to discover what they think.

Como muchos hombres inteligentes, cree que los demás son idiotas.

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.

When he said someone had 'died", Erd?s meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had "left", the person had died.

B?h není n?jaký kriminálník, který podvádí v kartách. Chce, abychom se jeho zákony ?ídili svobodn?, z vlastní v?le. Ani B?h nedokáže nakreslit kulatý ?tverec. B?h je osam?lý - chce, aby si lidé poslušnost sami zvolili, a ne aby k ní byli p?inuceni strachem.

Lidské srdce je malé, touží ale po velkých v?cech. Nesta?í ani zasytit psa, ale celý sv?t pro n?j není dost velký.

In stories of the good and bad it's only the good who are subject to dreadful luck, mischance and blundering. The bad are always sharp and act with discipline, have cunning plans only just thwarted in the nick of time. The evil are always on the cusp of winning ways.

Don't think of it as a lie, think of it as the truth under imaginary circumstances.

The mere adding of years to life is not living.

Those who have witnessed the deep truths of mathematics, Bell wrote, "have experienced something no jellyfish has ever felt".

and what is a good weapon but a good idea made murderous flesh?

non numerantur sed ponderantur (They are not counted but weighed)

la solución a todo problema es siempre otro problema.

los hombres importantes tienen responsabilidades importantes, y la de no mantener su palabra es una de ellas.

La soledad es algo maravilloso (...), por dos motivos: primero porque le permite a un hombre estar consigo mismo; y segundo porque se libra de estar con los demás.

Cuando uno les demuestra a los demás que están equivocados, los demás lo odian a uno por ello.

La fuerza es tan despiadada con quien la posee como con quien la sufre: a este lo aplasta, al primero lo envenena.

Estoy unido a ella por lazos que ni siquiera Dios puede romper. Un día, si una suave brisa le acaricia la mejilla, puede que sea mi aliento; y si una noche el fresco aire juega con su pelo, será mi espíritu el que pasa a su lado.

Nikdy nep?erušuj nep?ítele, když se dopouští omylu.

Nemá smysl zlobit se na n?koho za to, že je sám sebou a stará se o vlastní zájmy.