“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”
Alone“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
Truth“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“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“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.”
Happiness“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”
Great“Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.”
History“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“There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.”
Age“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”
Art“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
Truth“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.”
Men“Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.”
Famous“Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.”
Happiness“Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.”
Happiness“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“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“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
Alone“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“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”
Music“Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.”
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