Quotes About Perspective

A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT Stomach-ache can be a curse; heart-ache may be even worse; so thank Heaven on your knees if you've got but one of these.

REFLECTION ON SIZE Small people often overrate the charm of being tall; which is, that you appreciate the charm of being small.

VITA BREVIS A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

History is an argument without end.

Do not peer too far.

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

L'arte, che col suo pregio dona ogni dolcezza ai mortali, spesso fece sì che anche l'incredibile diventasse credibile.

I met two or three men who were very kind to me. There was a magistrate who couldn't stand priests, and a priest who didn't have a good word to say for magistrates; and there was a landlord who let furnished rooms by the hour and spoke highly of both priests and magistrates, because both were his best clients.

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

What is the prime of life? May it not be defined as a period of about twenty years in a woman's life, and thirty in a man's?

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Death is not the worst than can happen to men.

I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

El idiota suele ser buen lector, pero generalmente, de malos libros. No lee de izquierda a derecha, como los occidentales, ni de derecha a izquierda, como los orientales. Se las ha arreglado para leer de izquierda a izquierda

Non c'è nessun libro così cattivo che non abbia in sé qualcosa di buono.

There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.

With a grain of salt.

Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.

you have to have unhappiness to know what happiness is.

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."

Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead.

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.