“Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 140
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
“Of all the tyrannies on human kind The worst is that which persecutes the mind.”
“All human things are subject to decay, And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey.”
“A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.”
“Look round the habitable world: how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.”
“Death in itself is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.”
“'Tis not for nothing that we life pursue; It pays our hopes with something still that's new.”
“We come too late to say anything which has not been said already.”
“A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.”
“No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.”
“There are but three events in a man's life: birth, life and death.”
“Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.”
“Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable.”
“Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well timed.”
“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.”
“The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?”
“One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.”
“Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.”
“Women run to extremes; they are either better or worse than men.”