Miguel Quotes
Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.
The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.
Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.
With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn.
Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.
We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.
There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love.
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.
