Rafael Sabatini Quotes

• An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences.

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  Art, Drama, Intelligent

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Jolly Roger: Captain Blood PLUS the Sea Hawk”, p.114, DoctorZed Publishing

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• En el esfuerzo mismo hay un cierto entretenimiento dinámico, que proporciona una ilusión de propósito útil. Con el logro, la ilusión se disipa. El mayor logro del hombre es producir cambios. El único bien en la vida es el estudio, porque el estudio es un esfuerzo que nunca alcanza la plenitud. Ocupa al hombre hasta el fin de sus días, y apunta a la única realidad verdadera en todo este mundo de farsas y engaños.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Reality, Men, Deceit

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• Arrepentirse de una oportunidad desaprovechada es el peor infierno que puede habitar un alma viviente.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Moving On, Regret, Opportunity

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.2829, Delphi Classics

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• The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass to a superior stratum, apostles of equality must ever be inferiors seeking to reduce their betters to their level. It follows that a nation that once admits this doctrine of equality will be dragged by it to the level, moral, intelletual and political, of its most worthless class.

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  Class, Ideas, Envy

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.5085, Delphi Classics

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• Nació con el don de la risa y la sensación de que el mundo estaba loco.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Vida, Felicidad, Risa

  Scaramouche ch. 1 (1921)

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• Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.

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  Beer, Evil, Heaven

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.3315, Delphi Classics

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• Truth is so often disconcerting.

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  La verdad es

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.9, DoctorZed Publishing

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• When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself

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  Men, Finals, Said

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.2233, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

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  Men, Mad, Laughing

  Rafael Sabatini (2015). “Captain Blood: Story Pirates”, p.59, 谷月社

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• Sólo se cansan de la pesca aquellos que no aportan nada más que la idea de pescar.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Lagos, Mar, Pesca

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• Only he who is without anything is without enemies.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Enemigo

  Rafael Sabatini (2008). “Chronicles Of Captain Blood”, p.93, House of Stratus

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• To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.

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  Men, Divine, Divine Intervention

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Scaramouche (Diversion Classics)”, p.8, Diversion Books

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• Quedó el mar, que es libre para todos, y particularmente seductor para los que se sienten en guerra con la humanidad.

  Rafael Sabatini

  War, Sea, Humanity

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.3068, Delphi Classics

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• Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith.

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  Gold, Testimony, Good Faith

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Jolly Roger: Captain Blood PLUS the Sea Hawk”, p.74, DoctorZed Publishing

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• The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.

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  True Love, Men, Ideals

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.8614, Delphi Classics

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• In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.

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  Evil, Pay

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.2954, Delphi Classics

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• Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest chance might have averted. Indeed, coincidence may be defined as the tool used by Fate to shape the destinies of men and nations.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Fate, Past, Destiny

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.3115, Delphi Classics

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• I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

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  Poor, Knows, Conditions

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.229, DoctorZed Publishing

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• ...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

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  Ridiculous, Human Nature, Humans

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.10, DoctorZed Publishing

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• He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

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  Loss, Suffering, Illusion

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.16, DoctorZed Publishing

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• 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.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

  Rafael Sabatini

  Book, Men, Hypocrisy

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• But they were fated to misunderstand each other.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Jolly Roger: Captain Blood PLUS the Sea Hawk”, p.149, DoctorZed Publishing

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• 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.

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  Morning, Men, Apples

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.2979, Delphi Classics

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• They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!

  Rafael Sabatini

  Philosophy, Ideas, Bayonets

  Rafael Sabatini (2015). “Scaramouche, A Romance of the French Revolution: the History Focus”, p.197, 谷月社

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• But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Book, Thrill, Madness

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