“Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 9
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.”
“When I am forgotten, as I shall be, and sleep in dull cold marble, say, I taught thee.”
“With every accident, ask yourself what abilities you have for making a proper use of it.”
“Everything has two handles, the one by which it may be carried, the other by which it cannot.”
“Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet.”
“No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”
“Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.”
“Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.”
“Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.”
“Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters.”
“The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.”
“The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.”