“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.”
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“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.”
“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.”
“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are”
“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”
“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish”
“I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom, one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise”
“The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness”
“The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women”
“This is something that I cannot get over, that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character”
“When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'”
“Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain”
“The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs”
“The vices of some men are magnificent”
“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend”
“It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.”
“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents”
“Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum”
“Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much”
“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”
“The discipline of desire is the background of character.”