Thomas à Kempis
View AuthorThe humble knowledge of oneself is a safer path to God than the path of science.
Thomas à Kempis
View AuthorIf we were to eliminate one vice every year, we would soon become perfect.
Thomas à Kempis
View AuthorCustom is overcome by custom.
Sören Aabye Kierkegaard
View AuthorIt is a duty of human knowledge to understand that there are things it cannot comprehend and what those things are.
Sören Aabye Kierkegaard
View AuthorThe most common form of despair is not being who you are.
Ephraim Kishon
View AuthorI don't feel old because I have so many years behind me, but because of the few I have ahead.
Jean de La Fontaine
View AuthorEvery flatterer lives at the expense of those who listen to them.
Jean de La Fontaine
View AuthorBeauty attracts us, we despise the useful; and beauty often leads us astray.
Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorTo see through everything is the same as not seeing at all.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
View AuthorEveryone admits that the obscene stories one writes oneself are far from having as dangerous an effect as those written by others.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
View AuthorThe glory of the most famous is always associated with some of the myopia of the admirers.
Abraham Lincoln
View AuthorMeasuring words is not necessarily sweetening their expression, but rather anticipating and accepting the consequences of them.