Honore de
Honore de
certain leisure needs position wit
Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position
mean men position
With monuments as with men, position means everything.
came giant power thus
And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world
bad believe hear
Believe anything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad
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
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
cute-love face knows loves man open sailor woman women
A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.
courage easy forms lessons looks repeating rewarded teacher
A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage