in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
There's a great deal of difference between a little bit and a lot.
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There's a great deal of difference between a little bit and a lot.
Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.
It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.
What is my ruling faculty now to me? And of what nature am I now making it? And for what purpose am I now using it? Is it void of understanding? Is it loosed and rent asunder from social life? Is it melted and mixed with the poor flesh so as to move together with it?
The virtue of women is perhaps a question of temperament.
The winters are to fashionable women what a campaign once was to the soldiers of the Empire.
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.