"They say that love and tears are learned without any master; and I may say that there is no great need of studying at the court to learn envy and revenge."

Source : Nicolas Caussin, Hawkins (1678). “The Holy Court in Five Tomes. The First Treating of Motives, which Should Excite Men of Quality to Christian Perfection: the Second of the Prelate, Souldier, Statesman, and Lady: the Third of Maxims of Christianity Against Prophaness, Divided Into Three Parts, Viz. Divinity, Government of this Life, and State of the Other World: the Fourth Containing the Command of Reason Over the Passions: the Fifth Containing the Lives of the Most Famous and Illustrious Courtiers; Taken Both Out of the Old and”, p.668

Nicolas Caussin

#Revenge Quotes #Envy Quotes #Tears Quotes

“Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth.”
“I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.”
“Number theorists say that number theory is too complicated, so let's pretend that there is only one prime number, and then let's combine all these results. Surprisingly, sometimes it works.”
“In TheColorful Apocalypse, Greg Bottoms explores the frontier between inspiration and psychosis with the expressive power, the passionate fervor, and the faithfully unflinching honesty for which his work is deservedly known. This book is incisive, startling, and often genuinely moving.”
“After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.”
“Melody is the essence of music.”

Source : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1926). “Mozart: The Man and the Artist Revealed in His Own Words”, p.7, Courier Corporation
“People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.”

Source : Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.96, Vintage
“I don't know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships.”

Source : "NeNe Leakes Opens Up On Reality Television Not Being Scripted", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2011.

"They say that love and tears are learned without any master; and I may say that there is no great need of studying at the court to learn envy and revenge."

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