24 quotes found
“To hate excellence is to hate the gods.”
“Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.”
“Is he weeping?" said the one with the softest heart.”
“How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?”
“There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it.”
“Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.”
“There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.”
“It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.”
“It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.”
“In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.”
“Each generation has its own dream of beauty. I have lived long enough to watch it change. Just then, he was what all sculptors were reaching after, and only the great achieved.”
“Often I wished for someone to share my mind with; but their hearts were in little things, they would have thought me a dreamer, and I had to plan alone.”
“A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.”
“People like me are blamed for curiosity; having lost part of our lives, we are apt to fill the gap from the lives of others. In this I am like the rest, and make no pretences.”
“It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted”
“You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no fut...”
“What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.”
“Men are not born equal in themselves, so I think it beneath a man to postulate that they are. If I thought myself as good as Sokrates I should be a fool; and if, not really believing it, I asked yo...”
“It's only since it's been made impossible that it's been made so damn easy. It's got like prohibition, with bums and crooks making fortunes out of hooch, everyone who might have had a palate losing...”
“He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.”
“What is honour? In Athens it is one thing, in Sparta another; and among the Medes it is something else again. But go where you will, there is no land where the dead return across the river.”
