Multatuli quotes:

Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.

Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end.

It's unfair of a circle to accuse the angle of being sharp.

Perhaps nothing is entirely true, not even this.

Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.

Seen from the moon we are all the same size.

Sebab kita bersukacita bukan karena memotong padi; kita bersukacita karena memotong padi yang kita tanam sendiri.

Het is geen roman, 't is een aanklacht!

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

There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

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

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.