Tolerable quotes
16 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms."
"Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable."
"The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable."
"A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands."
"Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play."
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"Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life."
