It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us
It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.
Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume.
Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.
A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.
Hate destroys the hater.
The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
What nourishes me also destroys me.
Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.
Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others youre better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.
Become alert! Relationship destroys love, destroys the very possibility of its birth.
The lack of work destroys people.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
Russia doesn't negotiate with terrorists. It destroys them.
Love is the image of ourself until ourself destroys us.
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.