Great Throughts Treasury

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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 |

Pliny the Elder, full name Casus Plinius Secundus NULL

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.

Appearance | Character | Envy | Inferiority | Passion |

Austin O'Malley

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

Character | Love | Man | Learn |

Alexander Pope

The ruling passion, be it what it will, the ruling passion conquers reason still.

Character | Passion | Reason | Will |

William Penn

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

Character | Love | Praise |

Alexander Pope

Strength of mind is Exercise, not Rest: The rising tempest puts in act the soul, parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reason the card, but Passion is the gale... The Mind’s disease, its ruling Passion came.

Character | Disease | Life | Life | Mind | Passion | Reason | Rest | Soul | Strength |

Alexander Pope

The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Character | Passion | Reason |

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 |

Tatjana Patitz

I believe that being true to the self is the most important thing in life - to have a free heart, a pure soul and a pure mind. We all live, or should live, for the fulfillment of the self. We are all mirror images of each other; whatever we feel in ourselves we feel in others. I believe that we create our own lives... Intuition should play the main role in everything we do. Through the creative source of the mind and the unlimited power of the spirit all our deepest wishes come true. For me the meaning is that we are all one, and the only true reality is the spirit. Believing in the power of spirit is simply to have a passion for life, to learn, to grow, to evolve and most of all to love, and live each day and each moment of the day to the fullest.

Character | Day | Fulfillment | Heart | Important | Intuition | Life | Life | Love | Meaning | Mind | Passion | Play | Power | Reality | Self | Soul | Spirit | Wishes |

Bachya Ibn Pekudah

The goal to strive for is that it should be equal in your eyes if others happen to praise or insult you.

Character | Insult | Praise | Insult |

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 |