I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
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Dalai Lama Xiv
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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Albert Camus
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Bertolt Brecht
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms....
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William Shakespeare
More Quotes By Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.