Jacopo Sannazaro famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
A divided heart loses both worlds.
I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
One of the most beneficial of remedies is persisting in duâ€™a.

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