Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.
There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards but because they are men.
When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when the virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.
If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters.
Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems not even saints or sages.
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian.
When nobody around you seems to measure up it's time to check your yardstick.
Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last.
There is no such thing as something for nothing.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man is by necessity uncertain.
It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony like a following breeze at sea is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost our lot is to tack and tune...
Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never hav...
In nature there are neither rewards or punishments-there are consequences.
Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one.
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