“We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him”
“We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him”
“The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also”
“There are only two ways of getting on in the world either by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others”
“Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life”
“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win”
“As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.”
“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you”