Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. |
Life is a ticklish business; I have resolved to spend it in reflecting upon it |
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom |
Man should think like few do and talk like the many others. |
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. |
Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money. |
Music is the melody whose text is the world. |
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right. |
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. |
No one can transcend their own individuality. |
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought. |
Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror |
Nothing is to be had for gold but mediocrity |
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. |
Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex. |