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Rafael Sabatini Quotes

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Italian Novelist, Writer April 29, 1875 – February 13, 1950

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He vowed that the thought of her should continue ever before him to help him keep his hands as clean as a man might in this desperate trade upon which he was embarking. And so, although he might entertain no delusive hope of ever winning her for his own, of ever seeing her again, yet the memory of her was to abide in his soul as a bitter-sweet, purifying influence. The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man’s guiding ideal. Rafael Sabatini
In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is to produce change. The only good in life is study, because study is an endeavor that never reaches fulfillment. It busies a man to the end of his days, and it aims at the only true reality in all this world of shams and deceits. Rafael Sabatini
To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. you must change man, not systems. Can you and our vapouring friends of the Literary Chamber of Rennes, or any other learned society of France, devise a system of government that has never yet been tried? Surely not. And can we say of any system tried that it proved other than failure in the end? My dear Philippe, the future is to be read with certainty only in the past. Ad actu ad posse valet consecutio. Man never... Rafael Sabatini
It came to Mr. Blood, as he trudged forward under the laden apple-trees on that fragrant, delicious July morning, that man—as he had long suspected—was the vilest work of God, and that only a fool would set himself up as a healer of a species that was best exterminated. Rafael Sabatini
Rafael Sabatini quote: "To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine..."
To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems. Rafael Sabatini
Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it? Rafael Sabatini
If Mr. Blood had condescended to debate the matter with these ladies, he might have urged that having had his fill of wandering and adventuring, he was now embarked upon the career for which he had been originally intended and for which his studies had equipped him; that he was a man of medicine and not of war; a healer, not a slayer. Rafael Sabatini
Rafael Sabatini quote: "I hope no man will call me timorous; and yet I'ld as soon be..."
I hope no man will call me timorous; and yet I'ld as soon be called that as rash. Rafael Sabatini
Rafael Sabatini quote: "When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must..."
When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself Rafael Sabatini
A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world. Rafael Sabatini

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