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 | "Experience is a good school, but the fees are high." | |
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Found in the topic Experience.
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| "Perfumes are the feelings of flowers." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Mark this well, ye proud men of action! ye are, after all, nothing
but unconscious instruments of the men of thought." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "Matrimony - the high sea for which no compass has yet Been
invented." | |
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Found in the topic Marriage.
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| "If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have
found time to conquer the world." | |
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Found in the topic Rome.
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| "I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest
hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and
butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door.
And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me
the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those
trees." | |
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Found in the topic Home.
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| "Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would
to have never been born at all." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself
above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of
ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more
intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of
genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by
society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction
that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his
thoughts." | |
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Found in the topic Society.
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| "Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true
for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3. the fruit of labour and
thought. 4. soul. 5. the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
6. something one can become." | |
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Found in the topic Genius.
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| "The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would
soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art
of turning to every wind." | |
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Found in the topic Adapt.
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| "There are more fools in the world than there are people." | |
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Found in the topic Fight.
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| "Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human
beings." | |
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Found in the topic Book.
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| "He only profits from praise who values criticism." | |
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Found in the topic Praise.
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| "One should forgive one?s enemies, but not before they are
hanged." | |
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Found in the topic Endure.
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