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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common
Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But read more
Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: "It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ".
I was never less alone than when by myself.
I was never less alone than when by myself.
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of read more
Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for read more
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens read more
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
