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A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Karma is the philosophy of an eye for an eye, a tooth
for a tooth. I reject that. I believe read more
Karma is the philosophy of an eye for an eye, a tooth
for a tooth. I reject that. I believe in the love and
mercy of God.
It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel read more
It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside. Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC) -I Ching (B.C.1150?).
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonathan read more
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonathan Swift.
They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being read more
They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.
Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults.
Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults.
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to read more
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
