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- We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.
- The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of…
- When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we…
- I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
- Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we…
- The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
- I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we…
- I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through his monotonous life,…
- There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side…
- It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they…
- From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this…
- I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral…
- Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us…
- When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms…
- I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less…
- The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.
- The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most…
- You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
- For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which…
- But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the…
- Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love…
- There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons…
- You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize…
- Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat…
- I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster