Honore de
Honore de
exist glory lifetime longer surgeons talent whose
The glory of surgeons is like that of actors, who exist only in their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.
men originality talent
The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
promise fifteen talent
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
writing talent particular
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
inspirational willpower talent
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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
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