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“Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring the earth. ”
Book III • Marcus Aurelius“Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.”
Discourses • Epictetus“People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.”
The Karamazov Brothers • Fyodor Dostoevski“Inevitably, in the secret chemistry of the emotions the feeling of pity for a sick person is imperceptibly bound up with tenderness.”
Beware of Pity • Stefan Zweig“The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.”
Reflections on Literature and Morality • Andre Gide