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«We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.»
«There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.»
«Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.»
«What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? / And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? / How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? / I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself? / And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.»
«The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make»
«So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.»
«To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice -- and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
gentleness, gloss, glosses, nobility, self-sacrifice, swallow, win over
«To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched»
«True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Hope
| Keywords:
flies, swallow, swift
«True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
flies, kings, meaner, swallow, swift
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