Titu Maiorescu, page 3
Romanian lawyer, literary critic, writer, estetician, philosopher, univeristary professor and politician, member of the Romanian Academy, first minister of Romania
Who has vocation? He who in the moment of creation forgets his own self.
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Do not ask of the stream the vastness of the sea, nor of the hill the vastness of the mountain. In the meaning of great things lies the meaning of little things too, but never the other way around.
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No power can be suppressed in nature; that is why is so dangerous to compress it.
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When someone finds himself in the decisive moments of his life, he is no longer ruled by his mind; it only shows him the alternatives. It is the heart that gives the final direction.
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When someone borrows too much from others, he gives too little of himself.
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The first and biggest difference between truth and beauty is that truth encompasses only ideas, while beauty encompasses ideas made manifest in the form of palpable matter.
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We all have a double existence: an existence within ourselves and an existence in other people's awareness of us.
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There are trees; there are also blades of grass; but their merit is that they make up the forest.
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