Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.
The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.
The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.
Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.
I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.
Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.
The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.
Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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