![The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-chief-good-is-the-suspension-of-the-judgment-especially-negative-judgement.jpg)
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gratitude circles fire
Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death. Charles Caleb Colton
gratitude men serenity
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.
gratitude dross made
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.
gratitude revenge punctual
Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
gratitude revenge games
An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude
gratitude powerful yield
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
gratitude revenge adversity
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.
gratitude grateful language
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
gratitude appreciation attitude
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
judgement amplification youth
Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria. Alan Jay Lerner
judgement mind world
A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous. Byron Katie
judgement brain substitutes
Brains are no substitute for judgement. Dean Acheson
judgement feelings bitter
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. Charlotte Bronte
judgement too-much directors
You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much. Charlotte Gainsbourg
judgement fool conviction
Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions. Baltasar Gracian
judgement littles sometimes
A little (one) can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement gets clouded. —Abbot Saxtus Brian Jacques
judgement morality action
...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality. Ayn Rand
judgement enemy politics
In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions. Alberto Gonzales
mind colour new-thought
New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing. Charles Dickens
mind body weakness
Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
mind gout body
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
mind yoke foals
It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.
mind pay talent
Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.
mind toadstools insult
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
mind needed ifs
You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else. Charles Stross
mind christianity holy
When filled with holy truth the mind rests. Charles Spurgeon
mind states state-of-mind
We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.