Nero Quotes

1. "A cassock does not make a man a priest, any more than a fine dress makes a woman truly beautiful - or good or generous or intelligent. Don't confuse the way someone looks with the way they are."
Author: Adriana Trigiani

2. "You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."
Author: Albert Camus

3. "True generosity toward the future consists in giving everything to the present."
Author: Albert Camus

4. "Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing."
Author: Alexander Pope

5. "...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve."
Author: Alice Walker

6. "La magia deforma la realidad en interés de otro, con el fin de provocar una duda liberadora; la trampa, en cambio, deforma la realidad en detrimento de otro, con el objetivo de robarle su dinero."
Author: Amélie Nothomb

7. "An act of generosity rarely ends a man's responsibilities toward another; it tends instead to begin them."
Author: Amor Towles

8. "Alas!' replied Maître Mouche, 'she must be trained to take her part in the struggle of life. One does not come into this world simply to amuse oneself, and to do just what one pleases.''One comes into this world,' I responded, rather warmly, 'to enjoy what is beautiful and what is good, and to do as one pleases, when the things one wants to do are noble, intelligent, and generous. An education which does not cultivate the will, is an education that depraves the mind. It is a teacher's duty to teach the pupil how to will."
Author: Anatole France

9. "Let my heiress have full rights,Live in my house, sing songs that I composed.Yet how slowly my strength ebbs,How the tortured breast craves air.The love of my friends, my enemies' rancorAnd the yellow roses in my bushy garden,And a lover's burning tenderness?all thisI bestow upon you, messenger of dawn.Also the glory for which I was born,For which my star, like some whirlwind, soaredAnd now falls. Look, its fallingProphesies your power, love and inspiration.Preserving my generous bequest,You will live long and worthily.Thus it will be. You see, I am content,Be happy, but remember me."
Author: Anna Akhmatova

10. "At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame."
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich

11. "A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little."
Author: Benjamin Franklin

12. "Generousity invents prosperity"
Author: Binye Vincent

13. "To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't"
Author: Cecelia Ahern

14. "It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return."
Author: Charles Alexander Eastman

15. "En primer lugar, no dejéis que nadie gobierne vuestramente ni vuestro cuerpo y emplead especial atención para no poner límites a vuestrasideas, porque se puede ser un hombre libre a pesar de sufrir ataduras más fuertes quelas de un esclavo. Escuchad a los hombres, pero no os entreguéis a ellos en cuerpo yalma. Sed respetuosos con los que ostentan el poder, pero no los sigáis ciegamente.Juzgad con lógica y con razón, pero no hagáis comentarios.»No consideréis a nadie superior a vosotros, al margen del rango o de la posiciónque ocupen en la vida. Tratad a todos con justicia, porque si no intentaran vengarse devosotros. Cuidad vuestro dinero. Aferraos con fuerza a vuestras creencias, y los demásos escucharán —y añadió más despacio—: en cuanto a las cuestiones de amor... miúnico consejo es que seáis sinceros, pues la sinceridad es el arma más poderosa paraabrir el corazón o ganar el perdón."
Author: Christopher Paolini

16. "To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom."
Author: Edith Wharton

17. "His own exclamation: "Women should be free—as free as we are," struck to the root of a problem that it was agreed in his world to regard as nonexistent. "Nice" women, however wronged, would never claim the kind of freedom he meant, and generous-minded men like himself were therefore—in the heat of argument—the more chivalrously ready to concede it to them. Such verbal generosities were in fact only a humbugging disguise of the inexorable conventions that tied things together and bound people down to the old pattern."
Author: Edith Wharton

18. "When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with me: compassion. I asked my heart if it could please infuse my soul with a more generous perspective on my mind's workings. Instead of thinking that I was a failure, could I perhaps accept that I am only a human being--and a normal one, at that?"
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert

19. "Be fair before being generous, be human before being fair."
Author: Fernán Caballero

20. "Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others."
Author: Fulton J. Sheen

21. "The weak would never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh & ungenerous kingdom & that women gives themselves only to men of resolute spirit, who provides the security they need in order to face life"
Author: Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

22. "Creo que eres el tipo de persona que encuentra dinero en el suelo y lo mueve en el aire y pregunta si alguien lo ha perdido. Creo que lloras en películas que ni siquiera son tristes porque tienes un corazón tierno, aunque no lo muestras. Creo que haces cosas que te asustan, y eso te hace más valiente que esos adictos a la adrenalina que hacen saltos en bungee desde los puentes."
Author: Gayle Forman

23. "People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way."
Author: George Aiken

24. "Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous, and patient."
Author: Henry Miller

25. "Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'."
Author: Idries Shah

26. "The most chronic heart disease is caused by having greediness in your heart. Go for check ups regularly and learn how to swallow those lumpy pills of generousity. Be kind and be healthy"
Author: Israelmore Ayivor

27. "A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid."
Author: Ivor Novello

28. "(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution."
Author: J.M. Coetzee

29. "After a long night at a tropical beach and bar,I helped a drunken couple find their cabin in the early morning darkness. The husband remarked that he is only happy when he is drunk. (I am not sure what to make of that.)When I hear birds serenading the gift of a new day,When I watch the trees sway like fields of wheat,and feel a warm wind ruffle my hair and caress my face,When I see clouds slowly drift and turn like leaves floating on a meandering stream,I know joy. When I hear your sweet voice and see your generous smile, When I gently pull you closer and inhale your perfume,which harks back wonderful memories of love and joy,When I gaze into your eyes, azure pools that draw me in,and gently kiss your crimson lips, When you are lying next to me with your hand on my chest and we feel intimately connected, as if your body is my body, your heart is my heart and our souls are intermingled,I know happiness,I know love."
Author: Jeffrey A. White

30. "This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural."
Author: Jessica Lange

31. "Apprenez à aimer vos échecs, Marcus, car ce sont eux qui vous bâtiront. Ce sont vos échecs qui donneront toute leur saveur à vos victoires."
Author: Joël Dicker

32. "Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky"
Author: John Grogan

33. "Political job is not a business job but it is a job of the people who have generous heart who want to help others with their views."
Author: Khem Veasna

34. "Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated."
Author: Kofi Annan

35. "Co kdybych te drahá obesil?"Usmála se na neho dolu, snad mu dobre nerozumela, on se usmál též, kopl do židle a bylo to."
Author: Ladislav Fuks

36. "I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid."
Author: Lajos Kossuth

37. "But there was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word, the words themselves slanting steeply downhill, though the individual characters seemed as if resisting the descent, braced, climbing the other way."
Author: Malcolm Lowry

38. "No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it."
Author: Murasaki Shikibu

39. "The cats are asleep at the end of my bed and all around me, the thundery silence of L'Escarènere, caught at last in the rising flood of warm air, carrying the sand from the south. The Alps are folded above in the flickering light. And on the desk in the room beneath lies the writing which insists that the only escape is through the absolute destruction of everything you have ever known, loved, cared for, believed in, even the shell of yourself must be discarded with contempt; for freedom costs no less than everything, including your generosity, self-respect, integrity, tenderness - is that really what i wanted to say? It's what I have said. Worse still, I have pointed out the sheer creative joy of this ferocious destructiveness and the liberating wonder of violence. And these are dangerous messages for which I am no longer responsible."
Author: Patricia Duncker

40. "Let your rest be perfect in its season, like the rest of waters that are still. If you will have a model or your living, take neither the stars, for they fly without ceasing, nor the ocean that ebbs and flows, nor the river that cannot stay, but rather let your life be like that of the summer air, which has times of noble energy and times of perfect peace. It fills the sails of ships upon the sea, and the miller thanks it on the breezy uplands; it works generously for the health and wealth of all men, yet it claims it hours of rest.. "I have pushed the fleet, I have turned the mill, I have refreshed the city, and now though the captain may walk impatiently on the quarter-deck, and the miller swear, and the city stink, I will stir no more until it pleases me."
Author: Philip Gilbert Hamerton

41. "God doesn't make us rich so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children, or so we can insulate ourselves form needing God's provision. God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously."
Author: Randy Alcorn

42. "More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions."
Author: Richard Le Gallienne

43. "Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman."
Author: Sam Houston

44. "People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness."
Author: Sanaya Roman

45. "Bella: Fu un bacio tenero, adorante. Dimenticai la folla, il luogo, il tempo, la ragione. Ricordavo solo che mi amava, che mi voleva, che ero sua. Lui lo aveva iniziato e stava a lui concludere quel bacio, ma io lo strinsi forte, ignorando le risatine e i colpi di tosse dei presenti."
Author: Stephenie Meyer

46. "I will insist you be man enough to take it. I won't have you making light of my feelings, or making light of yourself—as if you're not worthy of them. Because you are worthy, Colin. You're a generous, good-hearted person, and you deserve to be loved. Deeply, truly, well, and often."He looked utterly bewildered. Well, what did he expect, after the power he'd given her? He couldn't compare a woman to a torrentially beautiful monsoon, and then look surprised that he'd gotten wet. "You reckless man." She laid a touch to his cheek. "You really should be more careful with those compliments."
Author: Tessa Dare

47. "Fools do not praise generosity, the wise rejoice in generosity."
Author: Thích Nhất Hạnh

48. "Human beings, in their generous endeavour to construct a hypothesis that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant power of lower moral quality than their own; and, even while they sit down and weep by the waters of Babylon, invent excuses for the oppression which prompts their tears."
Author: Thomas Hardy

49. "She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Nivas (soon to be entered into the annual Flower Show), she was Veena's love of music, Pran's asthma, Maan's generosity, the survival of some refugees four years ago, the neem leaves that would preserve quilts stored in the great zinc trunks of Prem Nivas, the moulting feather of some pond-heron, a small unrung brass bell, the memory of decency in an indecent time, the temperament of Bhaskar's great-grandchildren. Indeed, for all the Minsisster of Revenue's impatience with her, she was his regret.And it was right that she should continue to be so, for he should have treated her better while she lived, the poor, ignorant, grieving fool."
Author: Vikram Seth

50. "Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!"
Author: William Arthur Ward

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