Mediocrity
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Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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