If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."
"Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore."
"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's."
"A good indignation brings out all one's powers."
"What I must do is all that concerns me,."