“The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 22
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“Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.”
“For most men, till by losing rendered sager, will back their own opinions by a wager.”
“When people say, "I've told you fifty times," they mean to scold, and very often do.”
“But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, half dust, half deity, alike unfit to sink or soar.”
“No words suffice the secret soul to show, for truth denies all eloquence to woe.”
“The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
“Table talk and lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.”
“For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern.”
“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.”
“Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when everyone has to throw off his mask?”
“The deeper natures never forget themselves and never become anything else than what they were.”
“The relationship between the individual and God, the God-relationship, is the conscience.”
“A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.”
“Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.”
“Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.”
“I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter.”
“I know when it's the best I can do. It may not be the best there is.”
“I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, No.”
“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”
“Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.”
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