Posted by: Andrea Manfrč
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Happiness is what you say, what you think, what you do, are in perfect harmony.
I have done that, ' says my memory. 'I cannot have done that'says my pride, and remains adamant. At last memory yields.
But man is not made for defeat, he said. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be.
"There are millions better than him!"
"There are millions better than me. In any case I don't know those better than him and I can't consume my life waiting to meet them. And we should, then, search for perfection in a man, you'd love saints. Saints are dead and I don't go to bed with calendars."
If a man needed a bunch of women meant that he didn't have one worthy of that name.
Many give to others what they need most for themselves.