Ah! curst ambition! to thy lures we owe, All the great ills that
mortals bear below.
-- Teckell
mortals bear below.
-- Teckell
Related:
- To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether 't is nobler in the mind
to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing... - Old age is the harbor of all
ills. --... - We owe almost all our knowledge not to people who have agreed,
but to people who have disagreed... - Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear long the
burden of great joys.
Henry Ward... - We are all born with the same mark below,
And the bigger it is,
the more we know: If you could see it, soon would nature... - Keep what you've got;
the ills that we know are the best. --... - In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile-and the rest
of us are fucked until we can put our acts together:
not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing...
