- Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
- Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- I am not young enough to know everything.
- Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
- It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
- Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
- The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
- Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
- Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Only the shallow know themselves.
- The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
- Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
apr 21 2009 ∞
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