Honore de
Honore de
bad believe hear
Believe anything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad
leadership sports bad-ass
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
bad-ass events architecture
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.
exaggeration-is literature bad-grades
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
came giant power thus
And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, and didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
hatred inspires pity weakness
Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.
loaf science
To loaf is a science, to loaf is to live
desk laughing legal money night owner risks
I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never find any by day.
ease good greater impediment others terms
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ease with yourself
certain leisure needs position wit
Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position
attached men-and-women scholars-and-scholarship shame suffer woman
To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer
defects
They must have the defects of their qualities.
fun husband love woman
A woman who has made fun of her husband can love him no more