You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
JOSEPH CONRADThe scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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