Great Throughts Treasury

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Thomas Paine

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Business | Character | Conscience | Distress | Heart | Little | Love | Man | Principles | Reflection | Smile | Strength | Will | Business |

Plotinus NULL

It is sound, I think, to find the primal source of Love in a tendency of the Soul towards pure beauty, in a recognition, in a kinship, in an unreasoned consciousness of friendly relation.

Beauty | Character | Consciousness | Love | Soul | Sound |

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 |

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 |