We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
Johann von Goethe
When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
The unnatural, that too is natural.
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?
In His will is our peace.
Dante Alighieri
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.
Abandon all hope, you who enter here!
Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Follow your own star!
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.
Nature is the art of God.
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
These have not the hope to die.
In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.
Georges Danton
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
Lord Darling
There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.
Francis Darwin
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
Ram Dass
The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
DATO'S LAW. Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification.
Robert Dato
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