Quotes in this theme
Emotions and Feelings
Aristóteles
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
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Ésquilo
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
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Mark Twain
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Mark Twain
Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders .
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Mark Twain
I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.
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Mark Twain
Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
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Mark Twain
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
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Mark Twain
Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.
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