Pleasant Quotes

I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame).

Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.

I know the title of a King is a glorious title, but assure yourself that the shining glory of princely authority hath not so dazzled the eyes of our understanding, but that we well know and remember that we also are to yield an account of our actions before the great judge. To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.