Emotions and Feelings

Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

All victories breed hate, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.

The moment of greatest peril is the moment of victory.

I prefer an accommodating vice to an obstinate virtue.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Everyone has his vanity, and each one’s vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

Nothing is so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth!

Nothing is so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth!

Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice.