black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

Henrik Ibsen

The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
HENRIK IBSEN

Friendship Lying Oneself
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
HENRIK IBSEN

Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
HENRIK IBSEN

Act Courage Known Possible Release
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
HENRIK IBSEN

Alone Man Strong
To live is to war with trolls.
HENRIK IBSEN

Live Troll War
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
HENRIK IBSEN

Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
HENRIK IBSEN

Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
HENRIK IBSEN

Heart Small Soul Surround
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
HENRIK IBSEN

Fear Friendship Restriction
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
HENRIK IBSEN

Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
HENRIK IBSEN

Known Myself Stand World
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
HENRIK IBSEN

Life Yourself
The strongest men are the most alone.
HENRIK IBSEN

Alone Man Strong
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
HENRIK IBSEN

Cold Healing Sick Sound
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
HENRIK IBSEN

Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
HENRIK IBSEN

Finance Follow Rest Sports

What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henrik Ibsen Quotes