Es ist ein Unglück, daß ein braves Talent und ein braver Mann so selten zusammen kommen!
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 25.
Es ist ein Unglück, daß ein braves Talent und ein braver Mann so selten zusammen kommen!
Aphorisms (1880/1893)
“Good and great are seldom in the same man.”
“1752. Great and Good are seldom the same Man.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.”
"Recipe for a Good Film"
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
“Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.”
Berenger from Rhinoceros (1959)
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ”
“Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.”
Res secundæ valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.
X, 1, 40.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book X
“A good time is seldom had by all.”
Featherisms (2008)
L'auteur de ce Prophète a non seulement le bonheur d'avoir du talent, mais aussi le talent d'avoir du bonheur.
Les soirées de l'orchestre (1852), ch. 5 http://www.hberlioz.com/Writings/SO05.htm; Jacques Barzun (trans.) Evenings with the Orchestra (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) p. 62.
The Remise, Calais.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)
