Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. - Ae

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. – Aesop

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Philosophical
category

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Philosophical

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

Category:
Philosophical

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Philosophical

One does what one is; one becomes what one does. – Robert von Musil, Kleine Prosa

Category:
Philosophical

Random Quotes

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. – Michel de Montaigne

Category:
alone

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldnt be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife. – Angelina Jolie

Category:
Morning

Do what you fear and fear disappears. – David Joseph Schwartz

Category:
Fear

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. – George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

Category:
Childhood