Quotes
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
Call no man happy till he is dead.
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
Without hope, the idea of truth would be scarcely even thinkable, and it is the cardinal untruth, having recognized existence to be bad, to present it as truth simply because it has been recognized.
When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.
Whatever the intellectual does, is wrong. He experiences drastically and vitally the ignominious choice that late capitalism secretly presents to all its dependants: to become one more grown-up, or to remain a child.