Posted by: Cheope
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We are capable of making great sacrifices for great things, but rarely are we capable to sacrifice for the smaller ones.
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We are capable of making great sacrifices for great things, but rarely are we capable to sacrifice for the smaller ones.
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
Not having a thought and being able to express it is what makes of a pen pusher a journalist.
If I have seen further than other men it's because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
I am for the dispersion of stupidity. I don't agree on it concentrating for entire weeks in only one point.
Between human beings, even if intimately united, there is always an open abyss that only love can exceed, and even that with an emergency walkway.
That bright and fierce and fickle is the South,
And dark and true and tender is the North.
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
The same Gods may not revoke their gifts.