“I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 20
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.”
“I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”
“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”
“What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.”
“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.”
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
“Independence is for the very few; it is a privilege of the strong.”
“So long as thou feelest the stars as an "above thee", thou lackest the eye of the discerning one.”
“Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.”
“The man of perfect virtue is cautious and slow in his speech.”
“If the people have no faith in their rulers, there is no standing for the state.”
“When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers.”
“The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.”
“Recompense hatred with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.”
“In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will know the man.”