Proper Ideal

Famous quotes containing the words proper and/or ideal:

“If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed
Confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued,
And cries reproachful: “Was it then my praise,
And not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth;
I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.””
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)