“People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 148
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“The walls of Athens are impregnable, Their firmest bulwarks her heroic sons.”
“But when a man speeds toward his own ruin, a god gives him help.”
“Arrogance in full bloom bears a crop of ruinous folly from which it reaps a harvest all of tears.”
“Mankind's troubles flicker about, and you'll nowhere see misery fly on the same wings.”
“Thou are a better counsellor to others Than to thyself:—I judge by deeds not words.”
“For stubborness, if one be in the wrong, Is in itself weaker than naught at all.”
“In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship”
“He has the wisdom of an old man, but his body is at its prime”
“Justice turns the scale For those to whom through pain At last comes wisdom's gain.”
“Prolific truly is the impious deed; Like to the evil stock, the evil seed.”
“If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre.”
“I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.”
“The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas.”
“In the great philosophy of Brahma, such violent turns of the scale are quite unknown.”
“We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves.”
“There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.”