What did Mason Cooley mean by: Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA Copy
+ The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does. Feraz Zeid, August 26, 2023December 24, 2023, Mason Cooley, Excess, Eye, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mason Cooley, Excess, Pleasure, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ When disaster waves, I try not to wave back. Feraz Zeid, October 22, 2023December 26, 2023, Mason Cooley, Disaster, Wave, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mason Cooley, Aspire, Luck, Merit, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience. Feraz Zeid, November 8, 2023December 26, 2023, Mason Cooley, Apathy, Excellent, Indifference, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals. Feraz Zeid, June 17, 2023December 12, 2023, Mason Cooley, Betray, Self, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Beauty compels us; reason merely cajoles. Feraz Zeid, October 24, 2023December 26, 2023, Mason Cooley, Beauty, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never. Feraz Zeid, October 29, 2023December 26, 2023, Mason Cooley, Luck, Opportunity, 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
