Quotes: Life (10)

Life 291 One's follies are an important part of living. "Who lives without folly is not so wise as he thinks." La Rochefoucauld. French. Dictionary of Foreign Terms

Life 314 "We have all been mad once." Latin. Dictionary of Foreign Terms

Life 341 The depressive point of view about life. "Everything wearies, everything breaks, everything passes away." French. Dictionary of Foreign Terms

Life 347 "Ingratitude is the world's payment." German. Dictionary of Foreign Terms

Life 359 "Living is not breathing but doing." Rousseau. French. Dictionary of Foreign Terms

Life 309 The wonders of insects. "Hold in your hand the empty shell of a beetle or the shed husk of a locust; see the intricate parts, the ingenuity of life, now gone elsewhere…chitin, the horny substance much like your own fingernail, but only a few weeks ago a living thing…." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year.

Life 15 The "wheel" of life. "To see how the projectors of the world, like the spoke of the wheel of Sesostris’ chariot, are tumbled up and down, from beggary to worship, from worship to honor, from honor to baseness again." Owen Felltham, “How the Distempers of These Times Should Affect Wise Men.” 1620. Gross, ed. Essays.

Life 15 The speciousness of Machiavelli. "To see Machiavel’s tenets held as oracles; honesty reputed shallowness; justice bought and sold...confess money to be stronger than truth." Owen Felltham, “How the Distempers of These Times Should Affect Wise Men.” 1620. Gross, ed. Essays.

Life 16 The government distemper. "...plain dealing is thought the enemy of state and honor." Owen Felltham, “How the Distempers of These Times Should Affect Wise Men.” 1620. Gross, ed. Essays.

Life 16 The frustration of not being able to resolve the world's problems. "And, which would mad a man more than all, to know all this [wrong in the world], yet not know how to help it." Owen Felltham, “How the Distempers of These Times Should Affect Wise Men.” 1620. Gross, ed. Essays.