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Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.
All plants, animals, and men are already in eternity, traveling across the face of time. Whence we know not. Whither, who is able to say? Let us have one world at a time, and let us make the journey one of joy to our fellow passengers, and just as convenient and happy for them as we can, and trust the rest as we trust life.
Eternity | Happy | Journey | Joy | Life | Life | Men | Rest | Time | Trust | World |
Leonardo da Vinci, fully Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.
Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Almost all men are born with every passion to some extent, but there is hardly a man who has not a dominant passion to which the others are subordinate. Discover this governing passion in every individual; and when you have found the master passion of a man, remember never to trust to him where that passion is concerned.
Individual | Man | Men | Passion | Trust |
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Confidence | Hope | Mind | Trust |
Meister Eckhart, formally Meister von Hochheim
There is nothing to test the perfection of love better than trust. Wholehearted love for another person carries confidence with it. Whatever one dares to trust God for, he really finds in God and a thousand times more.
Better | Confidence | God | Love | Nothing | Perfection | Trust | God |
Morrie Schwartz, fully Morris "Morrie" S. Schwartz
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too-even when you are in the dark. Even when you're falling.
Important | Life | Life | Meaning | People | Purpose | Purpose | Trust | Wrong |
Mikhail Bakunin, fully Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin
Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion too!
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need at all of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by humans; for, in ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death... And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air... Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm.
Death | Enough | Good | Grief | Life | Life | Man | Pain | Soul | Trust |
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Trust |