"Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Want Quotes #Capacity Quotes #Cunning Quotes

“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”

Source : Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.5, Three Rivers Press
“As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine.”
“Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints.”
“Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.”
“Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.”
“I lost the person I intended to keep.”
“Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.”
“I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.”

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