I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

Quote by Andre Gide

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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for...

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for...

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his...

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his...

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that...

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that...

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back...

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back...

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for...

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for...

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another...

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another...

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre...

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre...

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in...

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in...

Understanding is the beginning of approving

Understanding is the beginning of approving

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit...

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit...

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible...

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible...

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some...

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some...

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by...

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by...