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«To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it,»
Author: Horace Walpole
| About:
Action,
Common sense,
Happiness,
Philosophy,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
bless, duties, respectfully, submit
«When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.»
Author: Marquis De Lafayette
| About:
Civil rights,
Government
| Keywords:
duties, insurrection, insurrections, insurrection of, portion, the insurrection, violates
«To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
duties, humanity, liberty, renounce, renounces, renouncing, rights, right to liberty, surrender
«To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.»
«What kind of scale compares the weight of two beauties, the gravity of duties, or the ground speed of joy? Tell me, what kind of gage can quantify elation? What kind of equation could I possibly employ?»
«We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.»
«Whenever I happen to be prevented by the press of duties from observing my hour of prayer, the entire day is bad for me»
«True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient»
Author: Seneca
| About:
Duty,
Happiness
| Keywords:
abundantly, amuse, anxious, dependence, duties, sufficient
«The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future»
Author: Seneca
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
anxieties, Be Free, dependence, duties, felicities, felicity, perturbation, serious
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