Nicolae Iorga, page 2
Romanian historian, documentarian, literary critic, playwright, poet, enciclopedist, memorialist, universitary professor, politician, member of the Romanian Academy, president of the Council of Ministers and of the Romanian Senat
The man of genius works for the man of talent, and the man of talent for the compiler.
Nicolae Iorga | Translations
Slander is a recognition of superiority: he who slanders proves that he needs to work in order to bring you down to his level.
Nicolae Iorga | Translations
Between you and the truth you have discovered there is no connection whatsoever.
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A writer is a spirit of social tradition. There are others perhaps greater than him that do not write. Those are expensive stones wrapped in selfishness, which they cannot or will not get rid of.
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The most sublime ideals are to be recognized by the fact that they do not have – cannot have – parasites.
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The romantic is he who lacks only one of the idealist's characteristics: a sure and worthy purpose.
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Which is better: he who buys what he cannot or he who sells what he has not?
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But freedom can never arrive at organization by itself, while organization, when it is a healthy organism, arrives by itself at freedom.
Nicolae Iorga | Translations