“ A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity. ”
- Saadi- Copy
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“ All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 461
“ Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
- 150
“ Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. ”
- Charles Maurice De Talleyrand- Copy
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“ It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ RASH, adj. Insensible to the value of our advice. "Now lay your bet with mine, nor let These gamblers take your cash." "Nay, this child makes no bet." "Great snakes! How can you be so rash?" Bootle P. Gish. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 467
“ Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile… ”
- Emile Durkheim- Copy
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“ There is a kind of greatness that does not depend upon fortune: it is a certain manner that distinguishes us, and which seems to destine us for great things; it is the value we insensibly set upon ourselves; it is by this quality that we gain the esteem of other men, and it is this which commonly raises us more above them, than birth, rank, or even virtue itself. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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