Zitat des Tages über Sterbliche / Mortals:
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
We are the only alive creatures that are mortals; the animals are immortal, which is why they live stupidly. We are the only creatures that know that we will die, but that is a gift. It's important because we know we have to take advantage and squeeze life and understand why we're here in the first place.
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.
Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know.
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals.
As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's.
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordlings enjoy.
Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.
If I were to believe in the stories of the of the gods, then the gods do not need mortals to defend them, do they?
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.
