Intervalle Ouvert Quotes & Sayings

Poor is the man, whose pleasures depend on the permission of another — Madonna

Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a purely negative or in aprivative sense. Mere negation does not display the character of evil, otherwise nonexistents would be evil and moreover, a thing would be evil for not possessing the goodness of something else, which would mean that man is bad for not having the strength of a lion or the speed of a wild goat. But what is evil is privation; in this sense blindness means the privation of sight. — Thomas Aquinas

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. — Niccolo Machiavelli

A shudder ran through her from head to foot when she found that the thread was actually taking her into the hole out of which the stream ran. — George MacDonald

Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it. — A.D. Posey