Martin Svoboda

“Men begin to reject simple things, and to write tracts, interpretations, and philosophical studies. They also begin to feel that they know a better way.”

“Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy.”

“Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.”

“The business of business is profits.”

“Let your desires be governed by reason.”
Appetitus rationi pareat.

“We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don’t spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don’t need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.”

“America the brave still fears what we don't know And God loves all his children it's somehow forgotten, but we paraphrase a book written 3, 500 hundred years ago.”

“Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.”

“Sometimes we will speak softly and carry a large Javelin.”

“A just man stand's on the side of the right with such conviction, thát neither the passion of a mob, nor the violence of a despot can make him overstep the bounds of reason.”

“When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are to become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No … don’t blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away. Doesn’t sound very exciting, does it? But it is!”

“I wish I knew how to quit you.”

“I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”

“We’ve loved each other so long I’ve never been a man and not loved her.”

“You are sunlight through a window, which I stand in, warmed. My darling.”

“She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she’s not even aware of. She is like a trap set by nature - a sweet perfumed rose in whose petals Cupid lurks in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She instills grace in every common thing and divinity in every careless gesture. Venus in her shell was never so lovely, and Diana in the forest never so graceful as my Lady when she strides through Paris!”

“Her love was entire as a child’s, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring.”

“She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don’t know what she was - anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back; I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.”

“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”