Quotes by Weil, Simone

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. >>

Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we >>

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from >>

Quotations about Friends and Friendship

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. >>

A faithful friend is the medicine of life. >>

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend. >>

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone