“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
Death“Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.”
Happiness“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
Death“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.”
Alone“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”
Alone“Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!”
Money“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
Death“We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.”
Success“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.”
Death“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
Nature“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.”
Truth“Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.”
Power“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”
Great“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.”
Intelligence“Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.”
Great“Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.”
Anger“Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.”
Nature“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
Happiness“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
Death“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.”
Men“Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Intelligence“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