People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.
The stated objective and the mission of Vladimir Putin's Russia is to destabilize the North Atlantic Alliance.
That's what poems are for, unlivable love.