He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
Success has always been a great liar.
The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.
Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?
The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.
In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.
Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.
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