Feelings

Control over desires is the foundation of character.

Character and courage develop in life's small adversities. When the really big challenges come, we are ready.

Conscience is an inner voice that warns me that someone can see.

When we have a conscience, it is generally a bad one.

Conscience and cowardice are the same thing. Conscience is the trademark.

If a person has never had a guilty conscience, the question is whether he has any conscience at all.

When I have a bad conscience, I can easily find explanations.

His conscience was clear, he never used it.

Self-respect is more important than position and career.

Love and lust

If you love a person, love her as she is.

Those we can love, those we can also hate, we are indifferent to others.

The sensible people exist, the passionate live.

Love dies over the years, only self-love lasts a lifetime.

Of course, it is possible even for me to love people - provided I don't know them very well.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog and money.

Love dies of boredom. Oblivion takes care of the funeral.

Love is the triumph of imagination over reason.

If you master your passions, you are a prisoner of your reason.

The penis and the mind stand at the same time.

Hate

What you hate, you cannot understand.

A person who hates someone does not understand her.

Hate is just a lack of imagination.

Hate has no place in universally thinking people.

Passionate hatred can give purpose and meaning to an empty life.

A common object of love is not able to unite us humans, but the same object of hatred always does.

Nothing unites like hatred - neither love, nor friendship, nor admiration.

A person who knows, that another has seen through him becomes his implacable enemy.

It is part of our human nature to hate whom we have harmed.

If you want revenge, then you will keep your wounds open.

Anger is a coward's revenge for being scared.

Hate, the most comfortable form of rebellion.

To hate is to punish yourself.

Hate rarely harms its object. The hater himself suffers the most. He perverts his soul and poisons his life by brooding old injustices and planning acts of revenge.

Speak in anger and you'll give the best speech you've ever regretted.

Other feelings

The deepest human need is to be seen, met and heard.

Pity is a mild form of fear. It is the fear of the intelligent, the imaginative and the far-sighted.

He who never complains never arouses pity.

Patience: a kind of mild despair disguised as virtue.

Life is suffering for you if you face it with your heart, bearable if you take it with reason.

Life is suffering, but death is no pleasure either.

People will never be truly as saddened by your passing as you imagine.

It's stupid that you get annoyed with people, only you yourself suffer from it.

Suffering and sorrow are part of life.

Anyone can show compassion to a suffering friend, but it takes a really good character to feel sympathy for a friend's success.

Compassion is a legal joy of harm.

Melancholy is a wonderful feeling of being sad.

There is a hell - being alone. There is a kingdom of heaven - to be able to be alone.

Carefully analyze your depression and you will notice that it is often rooted in your wounded self-love.

Hope is a medicine that does not cure, but allows us to suffer longer.

If you wish others success, you feel good about yourself.

Pleasure that has lasted too long is no longer pleasure.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Humor gives a sense of distance.

Everything is funny as long as it happens to someone else.

The joy of damage is a genuine joy.

There is beauty in everything, but not everyone sees it.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Music is shorthand for emotions.

Don't seek peace outside of yourself.

Accept yourself. Don't try to be perfect.

Boredom is seriousness without content.

Man is the only animal that blushes - and has reason to do so.

Arrogance is a gift from God to little people.

Only the tame birds have longing. The wild ones fly.

On the wings of time sorrows flies away.

Appetite is the luxury version of hunger.

Appetite is concrete longing.

Enthusiasm: Restlessness that occurs in youth and that is cured by small doses of remorse and experience.

Titles flatter mediocrity, embarrass the better and annoy the inferiors.

It feels unbearable when a stupid friend is succeeds well.

All sins are born from a sense of inferiority, also called ambition.

Patriotism is the belief that this our own country is better than other countries because I myself was born here.

The greatest charm of patriotism: It fulfills even our worst wishes. By identifying with our own nation, we can oppress and deceive. And best of all, we can oppress and deceive while feeling perfectly virtuous.

Greed is the only sin that becomes a virtue in the eyes of the offsprings.

Tell me what you despise, and I'll show you your limitations.

If someone deceives me once - shame on him; if he deceives me one more time - my shame.

Poverty is no shame, but it is damn uncomfortable.

Nothing is more worrying than reassuring assurances.

You probably live under the illusion that you know what you want, when you actually want, what others want you to want.

Convention means unanimity in words and deeds without unity in feelings.

Silence means consent or a terrible feeling that no one is listening.

Often we do not accept an idea, simply because the tone in which it is expressed is repulsive to us.

When someone I like changes his opinion compared to a year ago, or four years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has the courage to change his opinion when conditions change. When someone I don't like does that, he is a liar who has broken his promises.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do, but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

A bargain is something you have no use for at a price you can't resist.

A joke is an epitaph for a feeling.

Courage

Courage is knowing what you need to fear.

Courage is nothing but fear that I do not show.

Courage begets action, but luck determines the outcome.

The fact that we don't dare is not because things are difficult. Things are difficult because we don't dare.

We are all brave when the enemy flees.

Courage is doing things you fear. There is no courage if you don't feel fear.

What I have learned to understand, I am not any more afraid that.

I hardly have any courage, but I act as if I did, which might be the same thing.

Fear

Nothing is more terrifying than fear itself.

The fears are always more than the dangers.

Nothing is terrible, except fear.

Fear has the biggest eyes.

The only thing we need to fear is fear itself.

If you admit your fears, you have already conquered the first fear.

Fear leads to irritation, irritation leads to hatred, and hatred leads to suffering.

Waiting for accidents is more terrible and unbearable than the accidents themselves.

Of all the emotions, fear is the one that weakens judgment the most.

Fear of evil often leads us to something worse.

If you fear suffering, you are already suffering from what you fear.

Fear of death is worse than death.

If you are afraid of changes, you are also afraid of life.

Often reason is nothing more than courage to cowardice.

Heroism is not something found in nature. Nature knows only the life-preserving cowardice.

There are many good defenses against temptation, but the best is cowardice.

There is no cure for fear.

Envy

What causes envy? The gap between will and ability.

Envy is the sincerest form of flattery.

Envy is poison. But like some other toxins, it can also have a stimulating effect.

Envy stings in the wounds of vanity.

Envy is the mold of the soul.

Envy never rests.

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