4

What I have tried to do in my life through false tendencies, I have at
last learned to understand.

65

Generosity wins favour for every one, especially when it is accompanied
by modesty.

66

Before the storm breaks, the dust rises violently for the last time--the
dust that is soon to be laid forever.

67

Men do not come to know one another easily, even with the best will and
the best purpose. And then ill-will comes in and distorts everything.

68

We should know one another better if one man were not so anxious to put
himself on an equality with another.

69

Eminent men are therefore in a worse plight than others; for, as we
cannot compare ourselves with them, we are on the watch for them.

70

In the world the point is, not to know men, but at any given moment to
be cleverer than the man who stands before you. You can prove this at
every fair and from every charlatan.

71

Not everywhere where there is water, are there frogs; but where you have
frogs, there you will find water.

72

Error is quite right as long as we are young, but we must not carry it
on with us into our old age.

Whims and eccentricities that grow stale are all useless, rank nonsense.

73

In the formation of species Nature gets, as it were, into a
_cul-de-sac_; she cannot make her way through, and is disinclined to
turn back. Hence the stubbornness of national character.

74

Every one has something in his nature which, if he were to express it
openly, would of necessity give offence.

75

If a man thinks about his physical or moral condition, he generally
finds that he is ill.

76

Nature asks that a man should sometimes be stupefied without going to
sleep; hence the pleasure in the smoking of tobacco, the drinking of
brandy, the use of opiates.

77

The man who is up and doing should see to it that what he does is right.
Whether or not right is done, is a matter which should not trouble him.

78

Many a man knocks about on the wall with his hammer, and believes that
he hits the right nail on the head every time.

79

Painting and tattooing of the body is a return to animalism.

80

History-writing is a way of getting rid of the past.

81

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

82

Not every one who has a pregnant thought delivered to him becomes
productive; it probably makes him think of something with which he is
quite familiar.

83

Favour, as a symbol of sover