A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (1889).
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
I’ll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I’ll be famous, and if not famous, I’ll be notorious. Or perhaps I’ll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.