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Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it. ↗

— Hesiod

#close #easily #excellence #front #get

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. ↗

— Hesiod

#idleness #which #work

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame. ↗

— Hesiod

#shame #source #toil

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#becoming #bittersweet #flowed #had #happiness

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#become #beloved #childhood #everything #felt

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#brief #days #encounters #even #experienced

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#cleverness #good #patience #thinking #writing

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#how #object #talent

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business. ↗

— Charlton Heston

#business #movies #trouble

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. ↗