We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.”
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
“Resist much, obey little.”