Great Throughts Treasury

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Jane Porter

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

Character | Love | Right | Wisdom |

Petrarch, anglicized from Italian name Francesco Petrarca NULL

To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.

Character | Little | Love |

Austin O'Malley

If you would know a man, first learn to love him.

Character | Love | Man | Learn |

William Penn

We are too apt to love Praise, but not to Deserve it.

Character | Love | Praise |

Frank Popoff or Popov

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Change | Character | Conservatism | Love | Means | Success |

Wilhelm Reich

Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than partyline line or public opinion; when the mood of Beethoven or Bach will be the mood of your total existence; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than the politicians.

Aliveness | Better | Character | Children | Existence | Freedom | Good | Life | Life | Love | Money | Opinion | Public | Security | Will |

Madame Roland, Jeanne Manon Philon, born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon

Society is ever ready to worship success, but rarely forgives failure.

Character | Failure | Society | Success | Worship |

Publius Syrus

When you love you are not wise: when you are wise you do not love.

Character | Love | Wise |

Francis Quarles

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God. Know thyself, that thou mayest know God; and know God, that thou mayest love him and be like him. In the one thou art initiated into wisdom; and in the other perfected in it.

Art | Character | God | Know thyself | Knowledge | Love | Philosophy | Wisdom | Art |

Theodor Reik

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Character | Love | Man | Will | Wise |