Quotes about Reflection

And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged....

We cannot escape history.

A man is known by the company he keeps.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.

In the good days remember also death.

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: This too shall pass.

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.