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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore
The history of art is the history of revivals
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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