In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. FRANCIS BACON
For we live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; and our time should be counted in the throbs of our hearts as we love and help, learn and strive, and make from our own talents whatever can...
All great truths begin as blasphemies. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Civility The knowledge of courtesy is a very necessary study; like grace and beauty, it breeds mutual liking. MONTAIGNE
One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun. THOMAS FULLER
Hope If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
Goethe had long since remarked that nationalistic feelings ‘are at their strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture’.
Fear begets intolerance, and intolerance begets fear: the cycle is a vicious one.
One day everything will be well, that is our hope,’ said Voltaire; ‘today everything is fine, that is our illusion.
Hope is a virtue independently of its realisations; it is an intrinsic value, an end in itself, allied to courage and imagination, a positive attitude full of possibility and aspiration. For that reas...
For the grace of bearing life's inevitable evils is itself agood, and makes goodness arise even from evils byopposing them or enduring them with courage.
The word God is typically invoked to denote the all-encompassing and unanswerable source of authority governing what people can think, say, eat and wear, in what circumstances and with whom they can h...
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it is highly unprofitable to most people. E. B. WHITE
The rich man may never get into heaven,’ remarked Alexander Chase, ‘but the poor are already serving their term in hell.
The rich cannot eat money,’ dryly observes a Russian proverb, ‘so it’s just as well that there are poor folk to grow their food.
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish. CHINESE PROVERB
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did. LORD BYRON
Without doubt, prudence is a virtue. As the Ashanti say, ‘No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
Prudence He does well who moors his boat with two anchors. PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Fear If the diver always thought of the shark, he would never lay hands on the pearl. SA’DI