“Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 180 of 303
“Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.”
“Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.”
“Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.”
“We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person.”
“Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.”
“There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.”
“The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.”
“Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.”
“What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.”
“The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.”
“The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.”
“Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.”
“We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.”
“That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.”
“Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves.”
“He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.”
“We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.”
“No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection.”
“What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. Its just remarkable.”