“Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 124
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.”
“When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.”
“When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.”
“Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.”
“Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?”
“Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.”
“Religion is nothing, if it is not everything; if existence is not filled with it.”
“The rules are only barriers to keep children from falling.”
“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
“Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.”
“Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”
“I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.”
“In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.”