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From the midst of the fountains of pleasures there rises something of bitterness which torments us amid the very flowers (We Quotes)
The Gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused (We Quotes)
When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and mind and speech fail (We Quotes)
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false? (We Quotes)
Hope is our life when first our life grows clear, hope and delight, scarce crossed by lines of fear: yet the day comes when fain we would not hope - but for as much as we with life must cope, struggling with this and that - and who knows why? Hope will not give us up to certainty, but still must bide with us (We Quotes)
But though bare merit might in Rome appear the strongest plea for favour, 'tis not here; we form our judgment in another way; and they will best succeed, who best can pay; those, who would gain the votes of British tribes, must add to force of merit, force of bribes (We Quotes)
There are two ways of attaining an important end - force and perseverance. Force falls to the lot only of the privileged few, but austere and sustained perseverance can be practiced by the most insignificant. Its silent power grows irresistible with time (We Quotes)
Truth! Why shall every wretch of letters dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, nor mutter accents of reproof; let ragged wit a mute become, when wealth and power would have her dumb (We Quotes)
Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else (We Quotes)
It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either (We Quotes)
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed (We Quotes)
The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do (We Quotes)
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds (We Quotes)
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits (We Quotes)
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it (We Quotes)
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards (We Quotes)
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself (We Quotes)
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment (We Quotes)
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations (We Quotes)
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do (We Quotes)
The reason we are finding it hard to win this battle is that we're not actually fighting it properly. We're not actually standing up to these people and saying, It's not just your methods that are wrong, your ideas are absurd. Nobody is oppressing you. Your sense of grievance isn't justified (We Quotes)
We need to build a relationship of trust not just within a firm but within a society. By trust, I mean the recognition of a mutual purpose for which we work together and in which we all benefit. It is a Stakeholder Economy in which opportunity is available to all, advancement is through merit, and from which no group or class is set apart or excluded (We Quotes)
This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world (We Quotes)
The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining... To the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself (We Quotes)
When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods (We Quotes)
Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the big female weapon, and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it (We Quotes)
The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it (We Quotes)
The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age (We Quotes)
She is dressed to feel dangerous, perfumed to exude suggestions of nights in Babylon, and painted to drive men insane. How can she possibly avoid facing up to the terrible chasm between dream and reality when, in this musky state of mind, she must sit at a formica bar and squeeze mustard out of a plastic bottle? (We Quotes)
The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction (We Quotes)