MondayOct 13, 2025
Quotes: 53419 Authors: 9969
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.
Visualize whirled peas. Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine, with Gods help!
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
Great souls suffer in silence.
When Nature conquers, Art must then give way.
Time consecrates; And what is gray with age becomes religion.
The world's history is the world's judgment.
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
Art is difficult, transient is her reward.
When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
The world is governed only by self-interest.
Even weak men when united are powerful.
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
The transformation of pain to aversion is a fundamental law of the soul.
He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
He who considers too much will perform little.
Intellect is brain force.
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
It is criminal to steal a purse. It is daring to steal a fortune. It is a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Jealousy - magnifier of trifles.
Man is made great or little by his own will.
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
The ideal should never touch the real; When nature conquers, Art must then give way.
The man who fears nothing is not less powerful than he who is feared by every one.
Revenge is barren: its delight is murder, And its satiety, despair.
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