reflection Quotes

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?