Quotes by Nicolae Iorga

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What you are is ultimately about you. Whatever you want, look at others too. What you do, that can watch everyone.

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The world is founded on justice, warmed by love, and enlightened by consciousness.

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Learn not to reprimand until you are ready to correct.

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Do not deal with each man as he is, but as you are. Sometimes it is more dangerous, always more worthy.

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There is no true great poet but he who increases the power of feeling of his race and through him, of mankind.

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Let your writing be like resin flowing from the tree: life overflowing.

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Literature, with national roots, has a high social and moral mission, helping to reveal the higher qualities of humanity and at the same time working for its happiness.

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We often think that the things we have forgotten were not even there.

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The most precious memories are those to which our victorious suffering is bound.

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Your victory begins when the enemies use your weapons.

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There are successes that humble you and defeats that elevate you.

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Only the fall of the one who rose alone is truly tragic.

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In a fight there can be two losers, but only one winner.

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To help to glory someone who is not called for it, is to climb the house and let him down, when he has no wings.

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The egoist sees himself as the ultimate goal of creation; he would expect that the moment of his death would also be the end of the world.

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A man of fine qualities can never live for himself alone, as a ray cannot give its light alone.

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Only the death of the egoist is complete; none of it remains with others.

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Selfishness means making your being the prison of your soul.

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Give to each his due, and to you what remains.

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Selfishness is the desperate urge to steal a ray that does not illuminate others.

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Many love only the love others have for them.

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Many people think they can make a living without breaking the bank in a big house.

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Eulogy bores any man who is not himself the object.

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They demean others who cannot lift themselves up.

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Whatever someone forgives you, only one thing not: be greater than him.

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By praising the one who praises you, you also praise yourself.

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Your anger makes the world bitter, but only for you.

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The envious does not feel well alone; only the misfortune of others can make his joy.

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Always speak the truth: it's better to tell the truth yourself than to have someone constantly add it to what you say.

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So far people have found no other way to truth than error.

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The truth is like cold water that only sick teeth ache for.

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On ladders of assumptions you penetrate to the truth.

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With the same lie you cannot fish the same trust twice.

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The biggest liars are those who no longer have the truth for themselves.

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A lie can take nothing from the truth, just as fog does not make the day shorter.