Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Category: Inspirational
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
It is the theory that decides what we can observe.
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
I do not want to die. . . until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.