in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
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It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives'tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay, you can only know them if you have lived them.
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As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
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