Book: Human, all too human. Page 4

Tragic in the life of a great people is often not in conflict with the time and with the meanness of their neighbors, and their inability to defer his job for a year or two; they can't wait.

People are not ashamed to think something dirty, but ashamed, when I assume they attribute these dirty thoughts.

You need to have a good memory to be able to fulfill its promises. Need to have a lot of imagination to be able to experience compassion.

Loving girl wants self-sacrificing loyalty of her love could be tested by the infidelity of her beloved.

Not the one who causes us harm, but only the one who excites contempt, is considered bad.

The habit of irony, like sarcasm, spoils the character, it gives it gradually hell gloating superiority: in the end begin to sound like a vicious dog who is biting, besides learned and laugh.

Joy, not compassion, make friends ...

The best way to kick off the day is that waking up to think, whether it is at least one person today to deliver joy.

Pandora brought the jar of ills and opened it. It was a gift from the gods to men outwardly a beautiful, enticing gift, called the "vessel of happiness". And flew out of there all kinds of evils, living winged creatures: since they fly around, causing people harm that day, that night. Only one problem did not have time to get out of the vessel: it slammed Pandora for Thesavoy will cover - so the trouble that was left inside. And the people took the vessel of happiness to your house, thinking like to own such a treasure - wonderful for them, good luck. The vessel is always ready as soon as you come to him in hunting; after all, people do not know that the vessel, Pandora born, was the vessel of evils, but the rest of it for the greatest evil I think its happy property - and that is hope. Zeus wanted man, even unspeakably put to death in other troubles, not threw still life, and continued to suffer all over again. For he gave man the hope, it the worst of evils, because it prolongs the flour human.

Not being able to love him, they are immediately ready to admire, but even more ready to escape.

Still no religion, either directly or indirectly, either as dogma or as allegory, did not contain the truth.

Full of mind look can mean more now than the most beautiful body and most sublime construction.

The advantage of bad memory is that one and the same good things several times to enjoy for the first time.

The so-called paradoxes of an author, shocking the reader, are often not in the book of the author, and the head of the reader.