Posted by: Elisabetta
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)
When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity.
When the roof is burning, it is no use praying or washing the floor. Although praying is more practical.
Don't do to others what you wouldn't want done to you, their tastes may be different.
One does not triumph over passions one has not or has no more. There again: we may win the passion we do not possess, but we surrender to those that possess us.
All women are the same; there is no variety but in circumstance.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Even sleep is a form of critique, especially at the theatre.
The mean man has a sheer madness, struggling to not struggle, and his life from him flees with the hope of enjoying the goods so stranfully acquired.
Ask advice to who corrects himslef promptly.
He who has courage and character is always very disquieting for those who stand next to him.