+ Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame. Feraz Zeid, June 9, 2023December 12, 2023, Mason Cooley, Blame, Praise, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Fame now wears the halo that once crowned holiness. Feraz Zeid, October 10, 2023December 26, 2023, Mason Cooley, Fame, Holiness, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ No matter how close thought sticks to the actual, it follows its own rules. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mason Cooley, Thoughtful, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ I wish you joy of your unhappiness, since you cling to it so. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mason Cooley, Joy, Unhappiness, Wish, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mason Cooley, Asking, Justice, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mason Cooley, Adults, Children, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mason Cooley, Enlightened, Literature, Sage, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mason Cooley, Children, Innocence, Power, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · 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
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. - Jean-Francois de La Harpe Playwright · France
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn’t felt that. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it’s not arrogant. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England