In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 – 1944)
William Shakespeare Quote – “Why should you want?…”
Why should you want? Behold, the earth hath roots; Within this mile break forth a hundred springs; The oaks bear mast, the biers scarlet hips: The bounteous housewife, nature, on each bush Lays her full mess before you. Want! why want? William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
William Shakespeare Quote – “Rich, only to be wretched…”
Rich, only to be wretched, thy great fortunes Are made thy chief afflictions. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
William Shakespeare Quote – “O’ the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us…”
O’ the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us! Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt, Since riches point to misery and contempt? Who would be so mock’d with glory? or to live But in a dream of friendship? To have his pomp and all what state compounds But only painted, like his varnish’d friends? William Shakespeare (1564 – […]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote – “Nothing is more disgusting than the majority…”
Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quote – “What saves a man is to take a step…”
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 – 1944)
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “I have often been irritated…”
I have often been irritated, though it would be comic if the consequences were not so awful, by observing how men shut one another in a delusion and cannot get out of this magic circle. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “Everyone, and especially the young, should understand…”
Everyone, and especially the young, should understand that to devote your lives, or even to occupy yourselves with arranging by violence the lives of others according to your own ideas, is not only a crude superstition, but is an evil, criminal business, pernicious to the soul. Understand that the desire of an enlightened human soul for the good of others, […]
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “Let a man but realize that the aim of his life is…”
Let a man but realize that the aim of his life is the fulfillment of God’s law, and that law will replace all other laws for him, and he will give it his sole allegiance, so that by that very allegiance every human law will lose all binding and controlling power in his eyes. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
Marcus Aurelius Quote – “How much trouble he avoids who does not…”
How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only what he does himself, that it may be just and pure. Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180)