Posted by: Cheope
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
No bigger sign of being not so great philosopher and wise than wanting life all wise and philosophical.
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No bigger sign of being not so great philosopher and wise than wanting life all wise and philosophical.
Nothing demonstrates more the greatness and the power of the human intellect, or the stature and nobility of man, than man's ability to know and entirely comprehend and strongly feel his smallness.
He who has no motive shall never really feel pleasure in anything he does.
Esteem is like a flower, once seriously trodden or withered, doesn't return anymore.
When newly, in the bottom of a heart, a loving affection is born, with it both languid and tired in one's breast a desire of death is felt: how I know not, but of true and powerful love this is the first effect.
Within my gaze still she lingered, and in the uncertain rays of the sun I imagined seeing her still.
Man is unhappy because he is insatiable.
In troubles there's no need of tears but of advice.
When we are not worried about our own age means that we don't have true worries.
The most efficent way to gain fame is to make the world believe to be already famous.