Showing posts with label de Montigne. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Five more quotes

  1. It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. --Alfred Adler
  2. The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the posessor, if he know not discreetly how to use it. --Michel de Montigne
  3. What lies before and what lies behind you are tiny matters compared to what lies within you. -- R.W. Emerson
  4. His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world "This was a man." - Hamlet
  5. It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends? --Willa Cather