It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
Ovid
While you are an actor on the stage reciting your role you cannot grasp the inner meaning of the entire play which has the 'World' as the stage ang 'ages' as the duration.
Sai Baba
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Thomas Jefferson
In LA where I live it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
Alanis Morissette
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Confidence... thrives on honesty on honor on the sacredness of obligations on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
Paul Cezanne
People's personalities like buildings have various facades some pleasant to view some not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
Simone Weil
