What did George Eliot mean by: We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves - George Eliot Author · England Copy
+ To my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024February 10, 2024, George Eliot, Boring, 0 - George Eliot Author · England
+ The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness. Feraz Zeid, August 30, 2023December 24, 2023, George Eliot, Darkness, Light, 0 - George Eliot Author · England
+ But what is opportunity to the man who can’t use it? Feraz Zeid, July 28, 2023December 12, 2023, George Eliot, Opportunity, 0 - George Eliot Author · England
+ There’s no disappointment in memory, and one’s exaggerations are always on the good side. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Eliot, Disappointment, Memories, 0 - George Eliot Author · England
+ Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Eliot, Happiness, Preparation, Self, 0 - George Eliot Author · England
+ It’s all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Eliot, Country, Prosperity, 0 - George Eliot Author · England
+ Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Eliot, Ideas, 0 - George Eliot Author · England
+ Your dunce who can’t do his sums always has a taste for the infinite. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Eliot, Atheism, Infinite, Taste, 0 - George Eliot Author · England
Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can’t understand. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
