“What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.”
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
History should be written as philosophy.
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
