Quotes 81 till 100 of 10185.
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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
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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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Fortunately art is a community effort, a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
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History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.
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I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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