Aqarius's submitted quotes
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.
Two things may happen when we meet someone: either we become friends or we try to convince that person to accept our beliefs. The same thing happens when a hot coal meets another piece of coal: it either shares its fire with it or is overwhelmed by the other`s size and is extinguished.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves - say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion.
To women who please me only by their faces I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break - at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent - I am ever tender and true.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
- What makes the sky change colour when the sun reaches the horizon?
- If we tried to explain everything, we wouldn`t be able to live.
Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours.
Men who are truly generous are always ready to compassionate when the misfortune of their enemy surpasses the limits of their hatred.
A heart overwhelmed with one great grief is insensible to minor emotions.
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
Moral wounds have this peculiarity, - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.