Quotes from Multatuli

Seen from the moon we are all the same size.

One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture.

Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.

Perhaps nothing is entirely true, not even this.

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.