Great Throughts Treasury

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

What indulgence does the world extend to those evil-speakers who, under the mask of friendship, stab indiscriminately with the keen, though rusty blade of slander!

Character | Evil | Indulgence | Slander | World |

Moshe Rosenstein, fully Moshe ben Chaim Rosenstein

A person who makes his happiness dependent on material or physical pleasures will never be guaranteed happiness. There is always something that might happen to destroy his happiness and success. The only guarantee for happiness is to find happiness in spiritual growth.

Character | Destroy | Growth | Guarantee | Success | Will | Happiness |

Shantananda Saraswathi, fully Swami Shantananda Saraswathi, born Chandrashekar

Any simple act is very, very great if you do it with love and oneness... The greatest art of life is to feel happy by making someone else happy and thereby realize the mystical thread of life. Be fearless, be disciplined, be meditative, and be self-less. That will make you happy and playful.

Art | Character | Happy | Life | Life | Love | Mystical | Oneness | Self | Will | Art |

Shantananda Saraswathi, fully Swami Shantananda Saraswathi, born Chandrashekar

All weaknesses are just fabrications of mind. If I am not happy with myself, how can you make me happy? It takes time to see that my unhappiness stems from myself and not from you. We love to blame others as the source of our unhappiness because that is how we feel good about ourselves. But when we go deeper, we realize that no one in the whole world can make us happy or unhappy. It depends on our own integrity.

Blame | Character | Good | Happy | Integrity | Love | Mind | Time | Unhappiness | World |

Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Character | Patience | Skill | Will |

Lord Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face true proportions, the beauty of architecture true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Beauty | Character | Harmony | Honesty | Truth | World | Beauty |

Lillian Smith, fully Lillian Eugenia Smith

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.

Character | Journey | World |

Lord Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightness and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.

Character | Good | Journey | Prejudice | World |

Samuel Smiles

To be worth anything, character must be capable of standing firm upon its feet in the world of daily work, temptation, and trial; and able to bear the wear and tear of actual life. Cloistered virtues do not count for much.

Character | Life | Life | Temptation | Work | World | Worth |

Sydney Smith

That charity alone endures which flows from a sense of duty and a hope in God. this is the charity that treads in secret those paths of misery from which all but the lowest of human wretches have fled; this is that charity which no labor can weary, no ingratitude detach, no horror disgust; that toils, that pardons, that suffers; that is seen by no man, and honored by no man, but, like the great laws of Nature, does the work of God in silence, and looks to a future and better world for its reward.

Better | Character | Charity | Duty | Future | God | Hope | Ingratitude | Labor | Looks | Man | Nature | Reward | Sense | Silence | Work | World | God |

Albert Schweitzer

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will to live.

Character | Life | Life | Man | Order | Reverence | Will |

Eleazar ben Shammua, or Eleazor I

The world rests on a single pillar, Righteousness.

Character | Righteousness | World |

Eleazar ben Simon

The world is judged by the majority of its people, and an individual by the majority of his deeds. Happy he who performs a good deed: that may tip the scale for him and the world.

Character | Deeds | Good | Happy | Individual | Majority | People | World |

Samuel Smiles

The great highroad of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and the work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.

Character | Effort | Right | Spirit | Success | Will | Work | Old |

Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.

Character | Soul | Will |