Essays and Aphorisms (Classics)

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

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