“The eyes of the slanderer always move around as shiftily as a spindle.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 68
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“To speak arrogantly is like an abscess: a herb that makes the stomach sick.”
“The elder brother is indeed like a father; the elder sister is indeed like a mother.”
“You should not speak arrogantly to your mother; that causes hatred for you.”
“It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.”
“Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.”
“Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.”
“We have medicines to make women speak; we have none to make them keep silence.”
“Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.”
“God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God.”
“Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.”
“That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.”
“It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.”