PERSONALITY


It is not wealth but character that lasts. aristotle

If you laugh a great deal, you are happy; if you cry a great
deal, you are unhappy.

Even trees must be shaken by the wind, if they are to thrive.

The life of a fool is worst than death

Ordinary people think merely how shal they spend their time, and
men of any talent try to use it

Some people need something external to make them happy, and
that implies some shortcomings of their character - me

card-playing society, bankrupt in thought

The ordinary men palces his life's happiness in things external to 
him, in property, rank, wife, and children, frieds .. and the like, 
that he seeks pleasure in things outside him.

Like one whose health is gone, he tries to regain by the use of jellies
and drugs, instead by developing his own vital powers, the true source
of what he has lost.

He wants permission to be himself, ..

Great intellectual gifts mean an activity pre-eminentily nervous 
in its character, and consequently a very high degree of susceptibility,
to pain in every form. Further, such gifts imply an intense tempperament, 
larger and more vivid ideas, which, as the inseparable accompaniament
of gret intelectual power, entail on its possesor a coresponding intensity
of the emotions, making them incomparably more violent than those to which
the ordinary man is prey.

Man is not a monogamous animal, and that it is not so easy to do that - me

snob - person who feels superior because his rank or influence, or power.

