“Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be”
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“Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be”
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great”
“It is much easier to be critical than correct”
“Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy”
“My pride fell with my fortunes”
“We are what we repeatedly do”
“He who is brave is free”
“I awoke one morning and found myself famous”
“We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count”
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back”
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
“Be to her virtues very kind, be to her faults a little blind. ”
“Beauty and folly are old companions”
“Goodness is beauty in the best estate”
“Rare is the union of beauty and purity ”
“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think ”
“Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart ”
“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary”
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it”
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions ”