“Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.”
The quote collection.
Reminders for brave starts, creative days, and the moments when you need a little push.
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“Does the light of a lamp shine and keep its glow until its fuel is spent? Why shouldn’t your truth, justice, and self-control shine until you are extinguished?”
“The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.”
“It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.”
“Make me braver, make me calmer, make me the equal of Fortune, make me her superior.”
“The mind must be indulged, and leisure must be given from time to time, which is the place of food and strength.”
“Mankind is born for mutual assistance, anger for mutual ruin: the former loves society, the latter estrangement.”
“You will thus understand that what you fear is either insignificant or short-lived.”
“Would you know what makes men greedy for the future? It is because no one has yet found himself.”
“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”
