Personalize your sympathies;
depersonalize your antipathies.
(W. R. Inge: More Lay Thoughts of a Dean.)
Κατηγορία: Literature
Victor Hugo, «Friend is sometimes…»
Friend is sometimes a word
devoid of meaning;
enemy, never.
(Victor Hugo: Tas de pierres.)
Hugo von Hoffmannsthal, «Powerful imaginations…»
Powerful imaginations are conservative.
(Hugo von Hofmannsthal: The Book of Friends.)
Cervantes, «When a man is down…»
When a man is down,
‘down with him!’.
(Cervantes: Don Quixote.)
George Eliot, «One…»
One must be poor
to know the luxury of giving.
(George Eliot: Middlemarch.)
Walter Bagehot, «The purse strings…»
The purse strings tie us to our kind.
(Walter Bagehot: Literary Studies.)
Kafka, «How can one…»
How can one be glad of the world,
unless one is flying to it for refuge?
(Kafka: The Great Wall of China.)
D. H. Lawrence, «Every man…»
Every man has a mob self
and an individual self,
in varying proportions.
(D. H. Lawrence: Pornography and Obscenity.)
Stendhal, «One can acquire…»
One can acquire
anything in solitude
except character.
(Stendhal: Love.)
Lord Chesterfeld, «Wrongs are often forgiven…»
Wrongs are often forgiven,
but contempt never is.
Our pride remembers it for ever.
(Lord Chesterfeld: Letters.)