'Sexy' is being independent, being confident and having fun.
we know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris
Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
Wordsworth's particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time was--to Plato and who else? The crucial thing is never what we do, but always what we do right after that. What matters is always the next step!
The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.
The truth is impossible to comprehend even when one is willing to tell it. For the truth resides in memory and memory is clouded with repression and a desire to embellish. The recollections of any individual are conditioned by the general truths to which he or she has tried to live. To recall an event is to interpret it, so the truth is altered by the very act of remembering. Therefore the truth, like God, does not exist - only the search for it.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.