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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach read more
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people
The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those
of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perniciores read more
The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those
of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who read more
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't, and those in cemeteries.
In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can
not exist.
[Lat., In read more
In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can
not exist.
[Lat., In animo perturbato, sicut in corpore, sanitas esse non
potest.]
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
