Damnant quod non intelligunt. (They curse what they can't comprehend.)
One does not love because of but despite of.
If happiness wants to tangle with me, it will have to accept the condition my character poses. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch Chamfort
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. Jesus Christ, Matthew 10:34-35
Most of the time one is unhappy because of pondering. Joseph Joubert
A reaction to injustice: Everything that shall be forbidden is being laid down in a criminal code. A piece of old magic: the attempt to ban something by using words. Tommaso da Ponte
Scientists strive for Truth. Lawyers strive for Fame - thus for Reality. Tommaso da Ponte
Don't confuse vulnerability with weakness. Joan Saunders / Matt Ford
Jealousy is the ultimate waste of time. Joan Saunders / Matt Ford
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, more void, simpler than these. Friedrich Nietzsche
A deer without shyness is without grace. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Every depth smells of underground. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Never raise your voice over your horizon. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Only deep ignorance leads to a didactic tone. He who knows nothing, believes that he must teach others the things he has only just learned; he who knows a lot does rarely think that one could not know of what he talks and therefore speaks with a certain indifference. Jean de la Bruyčre
"He left this world" sounds very optimistic. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Real chosen ones have no choice. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. Ambrose Bierce
God is an Atheist.
Love thy enemies, maybe it will damage their reputation. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Mankind is the crown of creation. What a pity that it is a crown of thorns. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The greatest clemency with a human stems from despairing him. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Conformance is the way of least resistance - but it does not lead anywhere. Else Pannek
Jesus died for your sins. Make it worth his time.
Never fight against religion or other things which seem to depend on god, for those have too much power over the minds of fools.Francesco Guicciardini
We live in an age where superfluous ideas are prevalent and necessary thoughts fail to appear. Joseph Joubert
Words present within us - We always express thoughts with the words we have at hand. Or, to express my whole suspicion: at any moment we just have the thought for which we have those words at hand which can approximately express it. Friedrich Nietzsche
Increase of power by retreating resistance. Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
Our life is the fulgurating pain of a wound. Friedrich Herbel
What you believe to have to do is what you want to do. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
You can sink so fast that you believe to be flying. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
It is difficult to think him a fool who looks up to us. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
No winner believes in coincidence. Friedrich Nietzsche