Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
HENRIK IBSENMoney may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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