Emotions and Feelings

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever lasting.

The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other 103 noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.

He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: “If I had as far to go and as much 102 to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet.

The memory of benefits is a frail defense against ingratitude.

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.

Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.

Fear arises sooner than anything else.

The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives

Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.

Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.

Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter replied that he made his pictures by day, and his children by night.

The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.

It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

One’s thoughts turn towards Hope.

The eye which sees all objects reversed retains the images for some time.