I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd.
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.
It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.
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