“If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 153
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations.”
“Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.”
“The provinces are provinces; they are only ridiculous when they mimic Paris.”
“Loneliness is emptiness; and moral nature has as much horror of it as physical nature.”
“Read out the travails of Gilgamesh, all that he went through!”
“The heroes, the wise men, like the new moon have their waxing and waning.”
“You were given the kingship, such was your destiny, everlasting life was not your destiny.”
“Ever the river has risen and brought us the flood, the mayfly floating on the water.”
“As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he may do, it is but wind.”
“Let your clothes be clean, let your head be washed, may you bathe in water!”
“Gaze on the child who holds your hand, let your wife enjoy your repeated embrace!”
“When the gods created mankind, death they dispensed to mankind, life they kept for themselves.”
“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.”