Essays and Aphorisms (Classics)

Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything worth writing. It is as if there were a curse on money: every writer writes badly as soon as he starts writing for gain. The greatest works of the greatest men all belong to a time when they had to write them for nothing or for very small payment: so that here too the Sp

The public is much more interested in the material than in the form.

the negativity of well-being and happiness, in antithesis to the positivity of pain.