What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock... or a painful embarrassment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the least ...act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length even become the laughing-stock of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to y...ou who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep. Woe to you when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What a vast fraternity it is,--that of 'Hearts that Ache.' For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society wer...e coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflectin...g on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »