“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”
Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war.
Love's a danger that quickly fades
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
“My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.”
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Things impolitic and dangerous: praise for Greek ideals, supernatural magic, visits to pagan temples. Enthusiasm for the ancient gods
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
It is harder to fight against pleasure than against anger.
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.(Subdue your passion or it will subdue you).
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
He who shouts in his anger is harmless. Fear the one who is silently angry.
No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!
Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.
“Never was anything great achieved without danger.
He who doesn't know anger doesn't know anything. He doesn't know the immediate.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous play thing.
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.