Quotes 41 till 60 of 559.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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A perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.
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A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
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A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
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A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth - either epileptic or dead.
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
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