Demonstrating One’s Vanity to Friend and Foe
“Many a man, from vanity, maltreats even his friends, when in the presence of witnesses to whom he wishes to make his own preponderance clear. Others exaggerate the merits of their enemies, in order to point proudly to the fact that they are worthy of such foes.”
Nietzsche – Human, All Too Human
More Plagiarism:
Shirley Jackson: What nightmares are waiting
What nightmares…
Oscar Wilde: Actors are so fortunate
Actors are so fortunate…
The Seven Against Thebes: Maidens’ Opening Chorus
The Seven Against Thebes is a short play written by the classical Greek tragic poet Aeschylus…
Alternative Lyrics: Wuthering Heights
“Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy I’ve come home, sprink-oah-hahoahl! Let me in a your ice-cream cone.” I like to imagine she’s just so excited for ice cream as she’s spinning around that field… Song: Wuthering Heights – Kate Bush
Tao Te Ching: 11
We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move…
Myths in Minutes: Perseus and Andromeda
On his way home from slaying the Gorgon Medusa, Perseus came to Ethiopia where he saw a beautiful maiden chained to a rock on the shoreline…
Human, All Too Human: The Advocate of the Devil
Only by our own suffering do we become wise, only by others’ suffering do we become good…
Tao Te Ching: 79
Failure is an opportunity.
If you blame someone else,
there is no end to the blame…
Human, All Too Human: Man as Comic Actor of the World 1 & 2
If a God created the world, he created man to be his ape…
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