Console Quote by Luc de Clapiers Download Open image “The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.” — Luc de Clapiers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Console Life Pain Pleasure Shortness Shortness of life
We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains. — Swami Brahmananda Copy Share Image
Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain… — John Milton Copy Share Image
A few moments of pleasure cannot be worth the death sentence imposed by its consequence. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have no direct knowledge of this, but I suspect that Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations really strongly,… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
There are those who think that Zeffirelli's Hamlet is the way to treat Shakespeare. I think that cinema can handle much more. We somehow… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot… — J Allard Copy Share Image
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it. — Democritus Copy Share Image
What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves, — Banksy Copy Share Image