Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. |
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. |
Compassion is the basis of all morality. |
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. |
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. |
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. |
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over. |
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. |
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. |
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. |