+ Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties. Read explanation Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Samuel Johnson, Achievement, Resilience, Satisfaction, 0 Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. Author, July 16, 2023January 2, 2025, Samuel Johnson, Pleasure, Sensuality, Virtue, 0 Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ Celestial wisdom calms the mind. Author, October 13, 2023January 2, 2025, Samuel Johnson, Clarity, Peace, Spirituality, 0 Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration. Read explanation Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Samuel Johnson, Influence, Opinion, Perception, 0 Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ The worst evils are those that never arrive. Read explanation Author, July 19, 2023January 2, 2025, Samuel Johnson, Anticipation, Fear, Relief, 0 Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn. Read explanation Author, August 2, 2023January 2, 2025, Samuel Johnson, Learning, Limitations, Speed, 0 Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. Read explanation Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Samuel Johnson, Deception, Strangers, Trust, 0 Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. Read explanation Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Samuel Johnson, Experience, Happiness, Perception, 0 Samuel Johnson Writer · England
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also. Friedrich Holderlin
