
“One that desires to excel should endeavour in those things that are in themselves most excellent.”
"On the Origin of Beauty: A Platonic Dialogue"
Letters, etc
“One that desires to excel should endeavour in those things that are in themselves most excellent.”
“Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”
Source: The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Variant: The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
“things explain each other,
Not themselves.”
This in Which (1965), "A Narrative", 3
The Edinburgh Review, vol. 21 (1813), pp. 217-18