A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion. – Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Will, Willpower
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even ones own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. – Milan Kundera Category: Imagination
The party in power, like Jonahs gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall. – Davy Crockett Category: power
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. – James Baldwin Category: Belief
The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. – Henry David Thoreau Category: Age