Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.
Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.
The greatest possession is self-possession.
In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.
A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.
We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
The possession of anything begins in the mind.
Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac, as I recall in April of last year, referred to Iraq's possession of WMD.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.