Sometimes trials...Bring out the hard-hearted nature of a good person and make him unforgiving.And, sometimes trials...Help a socially snubbed person to live a humane life and make him appreciable!Its...
Man is a plant, and its gardener. But it is only his soil that lets him rise, and it is only gardening himself, that may allow him to bear fruit.
I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say
Polarization breeds respect.
Last days? Don't they know? These are the traits of all days, every day, everywhere.
Always think about the needs of others because being a part of a group isan essential characteristic of human nature.
Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us.
We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identicalstructures.
People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.
That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old time big brains. They would tell their owners, in effect, 'Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would never do...
In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them.
This attitude is basic human nature. We'd rather look outward and blame others for ills that befall us than point the finger at ourselves.
Why was it, she asked herself, that "animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast?
Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me
Its easy to lie, but hard to confess
Why are they like that?' I asked Cico. We skirted Blue Lake and worked our way through the tall, golden grass to the creek.'I don't know,' Cico answered, 'except that people, grown-ups and kids, seem...
Doesn't there, in fact, exist something that is dearer to almost every man than his own very best interests, or - not to violate logic - some best good ... which is more important and higher than any...
Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands.
The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with those who matter to you most.
Love is a sentiment precipitated by an illusionary excitement which seldom fades away leaving the victims in utter hope and distraction to love and be loved in return
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