Ifs Quote by Stanislaw Lem

“there were many ways to judge the acts of an institution, and the pragmatic way was not the worst, by any means.”

— James A. Michener

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“that they had never been properly taught to govern their inclinations and tempers, by that sense of duty which can alone suffice. They had…

— Jane Austen

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

— William Osler

“feel that it had not been the most direful mistake in his plan of education. Something must have been wanting within, or time would…

— Jane Austen

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

— Elbert Hubbard

“if one lived a moral life, was mindful of one’s actions, and developed wisdom, he taught, it was possible to dispel ignorance, rid oneself…

— Christopher Lascelles

“. . . you would have had a protected, satisfied, laborious, and obedient people, taught to seek and to recognize the happiness that is…

— Edmund Burke

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.

— Anna Leonowens

Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies; and among the good fruits of enmity, mentions…

— Joseph Addison

Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.

— Zhuangzi