Grief Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“Since I myself never wish to suffer and always want to be happy, I must abandon and purify my non-virtuous actions and sincerely perform…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

“Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess.”

— John C. Maxwell

“Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“What determines our being virtuous is largely the absence of opportunity to be otherwise”

— Eric Nicol

“A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.”

— Giovanni Della Casa

“Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of…

— Adam Smith

“Certainly man is a remarkably vain, variable, and elusive subject.10 It is hard to base any constant, uniform judgment upon him.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“He understood how grief can twist a heart, how passions drive good men to folly.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“The true man trusts in a strength which is not his, and which he does not feel, does not even always desire.”

— George MacDonald

“Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal.”

— Molière

“Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“People can be cruel, deadly, heartless, selfish, disrespectful. They can be vice-ridden and lack any basic empathy toward their fellow man.”

— Carrie Lofty