Men have fiendishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell only to find it ridiculous.
Men have fiendishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell only to find it ridiculous.
To fight is a radical instinct if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions
There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories