The most efficent way to gain fame is to make the world believe to be already famous.
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The most efficent way to gain fame is to make the world believe to be already famous.
Who more love himself, less can love.
Things are despised only when it is certain they are owned, and are appreciated only when they are lost or there is a risk of losing them.
Boredom is not but of those whose soul something holds.
Art could never equal the richness of nature.
I envy the dead, and with them alone would I exchange my lot.
All self-love in man and in any other loving being shall not be so if not to flatter other's self-love.
A beautiful and amiable illusion is that for which the days, annniversaries of an occurrence, that in truth have nothing more than any other day of the year, seem to have with that a particular connection, and that almost a shadow from the past may revive and return in those days, and stand before us.
The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.