“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche655
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Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism
Source: Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968), p. 225
Context: It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.
“The higher my GPA gets the more I realize high school is useless”
Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist
Source: Sloppy Firsts
Cleopatra VII (-69–-30 BC) last active pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt
Source: As quoted, Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Act III, movie XV, (1623)
Eugene Fama (1939) American economist and Nobel laureate in Economics
Source: Common risk factors in the returns on stocks and bonds, 1993, p. 8
Eric Trist (1909–1993) British scientist
Source: The evolution of socio-technical systems, (1981), p. 7
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: La vita è come la musica, fatta di alti, medi e bassi. Equalizza i vari toni affinché tu riesca a renderla meravigliosa.
Source: prevale.net
Honoré de Balzac book Le Pere Goriot
L'homme est imparfait. Il est parfois plus ou moins hypocrite, et les niais disent alors qu'il a ou n'a pas de mœurs.
Part II.
Le Père Goriot (1835)
Variant: Man is imperfect. He is at some times more or less hypocritical than at others, and then simpletons say that his morality is high or low.