truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 26 February 2007 8:33 am

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
Lord Chesterfield

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 26 February 2007 8:37 am

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
Lord Chesterfield

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 26 February 2007 8:49 am

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Lord Chesterfield

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 26 February 2007 9:03 am

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Simone Weil

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 26 February 2007 9:06 am

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Simone Weil

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 26 February 2007 9:08 am

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
Simone Weil

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 26 February 2007 9:09 am

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
Simone Weil