"It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Understanding Quotes #Faults Quotes #Common Quotes

“What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land ...”
“Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.”
“Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great poets of all ages and countries, to which our simple humanity entitles us.”
“Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.”
“What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?”
“We are all unconsciously in search of love. Whenever we feel its presence in our environment, we can't help but be drawn to it. There is no more compelling energy in the world.”
“By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.”
“I am a feminist. I'm trying to show the relationships between men and women, always the structural relations, not individual villains. I'd never make a husband a villain. I try very hard in my work not to - because if I made one man a villain, the rest would be off the hook. I'm interested in the system of oppression.”

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