Posted by: Andrea Manfrč
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Man is a useless passion.
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Man is a useless passion.
Act as is if every act is worthy of becoming a memory.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
But man is not made for defeat, he said. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
"He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
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.