in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
The old saying holds. Owe your banker £1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him £1 million and the position is reversed.
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The old saying holds. Owe your banker £1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him £1 million and the position is reversed.
Its not too much fun to know yourself too well or think you do. Everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through and past the falls.
All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.
Non bisogna mai dire per gioco che si è scoraggiati, perché può accadere che ci pigliamo in parola.
The existence of what is given to immanent reflection is indubitable while what is experienced through external experience always allows the possibility that it may prove to be an illusory Object in the course of further experiences.
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers, it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small. Let us believe it, then, once for all, that there is no hope for us in these smooth pleasing writers that know their powers.
Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?