Famous quotes containing the words short and/or distance:
“If true that notion, which but few contest,
That in the way of wit short things are best,
Then in good epigrams two virtues meet,
For tis their glory to be short and sweet.”
—Anonymous. From A Collection of Epigrams (1727)
“Egoism is the law of perspective as it applies to feelings, according to which what is closest to us appears to be large and weighty, while size and weight decrease with our distance from things.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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