Up to a certain point
every man is what he thinks he is.
(F. H. Bradley: Aphorisms.)
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Up to a certain point
every man is what he thinks he is.
(F. H. Bradley: Aphorisms.)
There is false modesty,
but there is no false pride.
(Jules Renard: Journal.)
Vanity, like murder, will out.
(Hannah Cowley: The Belle’s Stratagem)
Self-love is subtler
than the subtlest man
in the world.
(La Rochefoucauld: Maxims.)
We are more anxious to speak
than to be heard…
(Henry David Thoreau: Journal.)
To know your ruling passion,
examine your castles in the air.
(Αrchbishop Whately: Apophthegms.)
Everything that is alive
forms an atmosphere
around itself.
(Goethe: Maxims and Reflections)
I am enough of an artist
to draw freely
upon my imagination.
(Einstein: From interview.)
Man follows only phantoms.
(Laplace.)
The last thing we expect of you,
General, is a lesson in geometry!
(Laplace to Napoleon.)