“To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 36
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.”
“To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.”
“Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.”
“The formula "two plus two equals five" is not without its attractions.”
“Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.”
“Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.”
“Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”
“For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.”
“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.”
“Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to the man who is deprived of freedom.”
“The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool.”
“Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea.”
“A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.”
“A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.”
“For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.”