“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle”
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“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle”
“Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine”
“Our ideals are our better selves”
“You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.”
“The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul”
“There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan”
“I am swimming in dishonor like a fish in water”
“The weak in courage is strong in cunning”
“Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!”
“I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt”
“Human nature is above all things lazy”
“Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good”
“What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic”
“Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm”
“To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization”
“When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something”
“It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true”
“The only fault's with time; all men become good creatures: but so slow!”
“There's a woman like a dew-drop, she's so purer than the purest”
“It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.”