It’s not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.[Не ум главное, а то, что направляет его, – натура, сердце, благородные свойства, развитие.]
We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
There may be no heroic connotation to the word “persistence,” but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.[Also known as:]Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
The admiration of a quality or of an art may be so strong as to deter us from aspiring to possess that quality or art.[Die Bewunderung einer Eigenschaft oder Kunst kann so stark sein, dass sie uns abhält, nach ihrem Besitz zu streben.]
When a man is taken in a mystical sense, his qualities are often signified by his actions, and by the circumstances of things about him.
We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned.[Il falloit s’enquerir qui est mieux sçauant, non qui est plus sçauant.]
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
The only artists I have ever known, who are personally delightful, are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.[L’vtilité du viure n’est pas en l’espace: elle est en l’vsage. Tel a vescu long temps, qui a peu vescu. Attendez vous y pendant que vous y estes. Il gist en vostre volonté, non au nombre des ans, que vous ayez assez vescu.]
Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.
