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A word too much always defeats its purpose. - [Words] All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - [Truth] Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately. - [Books] Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time. - [Authorship] Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. - [Change] Compassion is the basis of all morality. - [Compassion] Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. - [Morning] Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible. - [Exaggeration] Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light. - [Genius] Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. - [Honor] Human life must be some form of mistake. - [Life] 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. - [Contempt] Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches. - [Ignorance] Intellect is invisible to the man who has none. - [Intellect] Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. - [Life] Man shows his character best in trifles. - [Trifles] Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation can make up for the want of natural abilities. - [Ability] Natural ability can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation; but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural ability. - [Ability] Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror. - [Theatre] Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. - [Politeness] Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own. - [Reading] Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible. - [Reasonableness] Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. - [Religion] Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. - [Death] Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging. - [Style] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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