19 quotes found
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.”
“A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.”
“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”
“Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.”
“Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.”
“He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.”
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.”
“Men who give up the common goal of all things that exist, thereby cease to exist themselves. Some may perhaps think it strange that we say that wicked men, who form the majority of men, do not exis...”
“So dry your tears. Fortune has not yet turned her hatred against all your blessings. The storm has not yet broken upon you with too much violence. Your anchors are holding firm and they permit you ...”
“And further, God should not be regarded as older than His creations by any period of time, but rather by the peculiar property of His own single nature. For the infinite changing of temporal things...”
“You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.”
“He is in no real danger. He merely suffers from a lethargy, a sickness that is common among the depressed. He has forgotten who he really is, but he will recover, for he used to know me, and all I ...”
“Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate good men. And there is no reason at all for hating the bad. For just as weakness is a dis...”
“Indeed, the condition of human nature is just this; man towers above the rest of creation so long as he realizes his own nature, and when he forgets it, he sinks lower than the beasts. For other li...”
“And so sovereign Providence has often produced a remarkable effect--evil men making other evil men good. For some, when they think they suffer injustice at the hands of the worst of men, burn with ...”
“If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy”
“With domineering hand she moves the turning wheel,Like currents in a treacherous bay swept to and fro:Her ruthless will has just deposed once fearful kingsWhile trustless still, from low she lifts ...”
“In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature but in men it is a vice.”
