The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
Blaise Pascal
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Jonathan Swift
As to the pure all things are pure even so to the impure all things are impure.
Augustus Hare
A human being has so many skins inside covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things but we don't know ourselves! Why thirty or forty skins or hides as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
Meister Eckhart
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Robert Kennedy
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool, the truest heroism is to resist the doubt, and the profoundest wisdom to know when it ought to be resisted and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Many people including some conservatives have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.
Thomas Sowell
The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.
Emile M. Cioran
