In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.
The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.
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.
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.
Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.
Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.
A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.
However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what should have bourne them.
Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.
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