Posted by: Ugo Perugini
The truth, to which only a brief triumph is allotted between the two long periods in which it is condemned as paradoxical or disparaged as trivial.
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The truth, to which only a brief triumph is allotted between the two long periods in which it is condemned as paradoxical or disparaged as trivial.
Health outweighs all other blessings so much that one may really say that a healthy beggar is happier than an ailing king.
If life is good, why is it taken from us? And if it is bad, why is it given to us?
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.
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
It radiates its own light, whereas the others reflect only the light they have received.
The pain felt by the animal killed to be eaten is much greater than that of he who eats it.
The more intelligence you shall have, the more you shall suffer.
If a God has made this world, then I would not like to be the God; it's misery and distress would break my heart.
Love and hate falsify our judgement entirely. In our enemies we see nothing but faults, in our loved ones nothing but excellences, and even their faults appear to us amiable.