The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. |
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. |
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors. |
The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. |
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. |
The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality |
The history of mankind is his character. |
The human mind will not be confined to any limits. |
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing |
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. |
The little man is still a man. |
The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do. |
The man of understanding finds everything laughable |
The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks |
The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it. |