Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious con |
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious con |
I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant |
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. |
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. |
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. |
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. |
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. |
It is not what he had, or even what he does, which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. |
It is not what he had, or even what he does, which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. |
Its way of suffering is the witness which a soul bares to itself. |
Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality. |
Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality. |
Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality. |
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. |