Camouflage Quote by Josef Pieper

Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

— Martial

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

— Saadi

He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that…

— Leo Buscaglia

He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the…

— Pietro Aretino

When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.

— Joseph Brodsky

“The hideousness {the author] sees is the reflection of himself, and of the automatic meat-lust with which he approaches another individual…Even the most “beautiful”…

— D.H. Lawrence

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of…

— Stendhal

The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate doth accompany,…

— Gautama Buddha