Emotions and Feelings

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.

If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.

If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.

Not to anticipate is already to moan.

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, ’tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Lust is the cause of generation.

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

He who walks straight rarely falls.

An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.

Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

The moment is timeless.

Fix your course on a star and you’ll navigate any storm.

Fix your course on a star and you’ll navigate any storm.

I love those who can smile in trouble

I love those who can smile in trouble

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.