Posted by: Cheope
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
Every word that we utter rouses its contrary.
All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
Certain books seem to have been written not so that we may learn from them, but so that it may be demonstrated that the author knew something.
If it is true that youth is a deficiency, we hastily correct ourselves of it.
Life is like the Sibylline books; the more concise, the more precious.
The eternal feminine, draws us higher.
Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.