If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease
If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
It is a great piece of folly to sacrifice the inner for the outer man.
A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man
The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has.... . What a man is in himself, what accompanies him when he is alone, what no one can give him or take away, is obviously more essential to him than everything he has in the way of possessions, or even what he may be in the eyes of the world.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
The more a man finds his sources of pleasure in himself, the happier he will be.... The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.
Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time a man of talent tries to use it.
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
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