“Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.”
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Our honesty, we free spirits—let us be careful lest it become our vanity, our ornament and ostentation, our limitation, our stupidity!
25 Ekim 1920 güncesinde sorar:
“Why is life so tragic? So like a little strip of pavement over an abyss? I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end... Like a lantern stood in the middle of a field my life goes up in darknes... Unhappiness is... Sayfa 35 - Yapı Kredi Yayınları
Erkekleri genellikle akılsız da bulurdu. “And how they pride themselves upon a point of view which much resembles stupidity” (Ahmaklığa çok benzeyen görüş açılarından ötürü nasıl da gururlanırlar) derdi.Sayfa 28 - Yapı Kredi Yayınları
Ever since, I’ve loved listening to men pontificate about the stupidity of women who are attracted to power, money, or celebrity: as if it were any dumber than being attracted to fishnet stockings …Macmillan
