No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few priveledged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
He who seizes the right moment, is the right man.
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.
Energy will do anything that can be done in the world and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion
The life of man appears a glorious fate:
The day how lovely, and the night how great!
Who is the happiest of men?
If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of being
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
The little man is still a man.
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
A vain man can never be utterly ruthless he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others.
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
Who is the happiest of men He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.
While man aspires, he errs.
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.
On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
How dost thou differ from all other men?
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.
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