Austerity Quote by Blaise Pascal

In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But…

— Edmund Burke

Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I…

— Ann Radcliffe

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

— Albert Camus

“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience,…

— Anonymous

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

— Friedrich Schiller

Depend upon it; from every condition of distress or evil, there is a great reaction, and the greater the distress or evil, the greater…

— Theodore Dreiser

“I am amazed at the heart of man: It possesses the substance of wisdom as well as the opposites contrary to it ... for…

— Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel…

— Aristotle

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and…

— Henry David Thoreau

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this…

— Henry James

“Most positive emotions and virtually all passion, purpose, and conviction come from creating value and staying true to it. On the other hand, most…

— Steven Stosny