Posted by: Marcello Palmieri
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
A man is old only when his remorse exceeds his dreams.
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A man is old only when his remorse exceeds his dreams.
Towards the end of life, much the same happens as at the end of a masked ball when the masks are removed. We now see who those really were with whom we had come in contact during the course of our life.
Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
I know many scoundrels who aren't moralists, but I know of no moralists who aren't scoundrels.
Saying the incredible and doing the improbable: that does it for me!
You have to live a life to understand life. Turists are just passing through.
There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end. You are worth it.
Everything around is alive with an infinite number of forms; while mankind fly for security to their petty houses, from the shelter of which they rule in their imaginations over the wide-extended universe. Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
Each of us must find on its behalf what is legal and what is forbidden: forbidden for him. You can not make never nothing forbidden and however be a great scoundrel. And vice versa. To be absolutely rigorous, it's comfortable. Whoever is too much comfortable to think for himself and to be judge of himself settles down to the prohibition. Easy for him. Others instead feel some Commandments inside themself and consider forbidden things that any gentleman does every day, while they feel legit other things that usually are prohibited. Everyone must be guarantor of itself.
Men appreciate and measure but the fortune of others. Their own, never.