Love & Life Sayings

The greatest evil that can befall men is that they should consider themselves as perfect.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

If my kid did that [jump off a bridge because they're sad], I'd be pissed. What a fucking moron! I wouldn't even give him a funeral.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

The problem of society is not how to abolish evil, but how to make it productive.

When a society is deeply divided, it tends to commit suicide collectively.

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.

Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.

Desecrate the earth and father it with horror.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

The death of the author is the birth of the reader.

The strong bull, beloved of Maat, stable of heart, whose will is effective in Thebes and Heliopolis.

If a man's wife is caught lying with another man, they shall bind them and throw them into the water.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Hold! Hold! For by the Splendour of God, I have taken possession of my kingdom; the earth of England is in my two hands.

The problem with modernity is that it has removed us from our natural environment.