💬 Quotes

"Neither my husband nor the slave return'd, / Being thus denied desire, they hit him home; / Long stay'd the ajax; all the while you came."

"There's nothing situate under the heaven's eye / But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky."

"He that commends me to mine own content, / Commends me to the thing I cannot get. / I to the world am like a drop of water / That in the ocean seeks another drop."

"Methinks you are my glass, and not my wife: / I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth."

"Though now this grained face of mine be hid / In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, / And all the conduits of my blood froze up, / Yet hath my night of life no memory, / My wasting lamps no fading spark left awry."

"Humanum est dolere miseris: et etsi quivis hoc convenit, illis tamen maxime pertipiscendum est, qui iam consolatione quærunt, et in illis spem habuerunt."

"The nature of mankind is such that we always run greedily after forbidden fruit and desire things that are denied us."

"Wisdom, once acquired, can neither be stolen nor lost; it alone remains steadfast when all else fades."

"Let us enjoy our youth while it lasts, for no man can promise himself another day."

"Often under a shabby cloak there lie hidden men of supreme wisdom, and beneath rough and ragged garments great kings and emperors."

"Love feels no reverence for high estate, nor does it pay heed to laws, but claims absolute dominion over the human heart."

"Now I saw in my dream, that thus they went on together, until they came in sight of the wicket-gate."

"As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den, and laid me down in that place to sleep."

"He that is down needs fear no fall, he that is low no pride; he that is humble ever shall have God to be his guide."

"Then said Christian, 'You lie so low, I cannot reach you.' 'It is right,' replied the other, 'for this pit is as low as the grave.'"

"A man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away, the more he had."

"My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it."

"Character is fate, said Novalis, and not less recent romances make it evident that the assertion of a new responsibility is a frequent beginning of a new mental attitude."

"Misery teaches extremes of humiliation; but he was already abased."

"Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain."