All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes fellow misfortune think
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Jean-Jacques Rousseau bitterfruitpatience Change image and share on social
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards. Jean-Jacques Rousseau braggartcarriagecoward Change image and share on social
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing. Jean-Jacques Rousseau ashamedblushguilty Change image and share on social
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. Sophocles amidangryapply Change image and share on social
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men. George Ripley abstractattachmentdevotion share on social
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. Lewis Thomas antbeastbegin share on social