Quotes 21 till 40 of 3662.
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement - in a word, with more renunciation than you care for - and so you flee the contagion.
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.
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Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list - the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
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Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
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For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
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Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
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