17 quotes
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom.”
“One should use common words to say uncommon things.”
“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
“He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.”
“Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it.”
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
“Compassion is the basis of morality and kindness is compassion in action”
“Compassion is the basis of all morality.”
“We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack.”
“We forfeit three quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people”
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit genius hits a target no one else can see”
“Life and dreams are leaves of the same book. Reading them in order is living; browsing through them is dreaming.”
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