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“We are not born for ourselves alone; a part of us is claimed by our nation, another part by our friends.”
On Duties • Marcus Tullius Cicero“We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.”
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept • Paulo Coelho““And there is nothing wastes so rapidly as liberality, for even whilst you exercise it you lose the power to do so.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli“In general, one must have value oneself in order freely and willingly to acknowledge value in another. This is the basis for the requirement that modesty accompany all merits, as well as the disproportionately loud praise for this virtue which alone, among all its sisters, is always added to the praise of anyone distinguished in some way by the person who dares to praise him, so as to conciliate the worthless and silence their wrath. For what is modesty if not false humility which someone with merits and advantages in a world teeming with perfidious envy uses to beg the pardon of those who have none? Someone who does not lay claim to merit because he in fact has none is being honest, not modest.”
The World As Will and Representation • Arthur Schopenhauer“What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourselves!”
The Inspector General • Nikolai Gogol