What did Margaret Deland mean by: In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness. - Margaret Deland Author · USA Copy
+ I’ve always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Law, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ conceit is the devil’s horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Conceit, Devil, Horse, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Grief, Pay, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Blow, Enemy, Time, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It’s a spiritual dissipation. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Sacrifice, Self, Spiritual Life, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Virtue, Wife, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Alive, Desire, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ … some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Floating, Memories, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
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
Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty. - Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin Magician · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Designers are to be in connection with what’s happening with the movement of society. - Jean Paul Gaultier Fashion designer · France
Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts. - Hermann von Helmholtz
