My personal affairs are not as highly esteemed as men commonly value their own interests-vain, empty affairs like those great clouds seen in the wake of the sunset which are meaningless and soon pass away. (Gerolamo Cardano)

My personal affairs are not as highly esteemed as men commonly value their own interests-vain, empty affairs like those great clouds seen in the wake of the sunset which are meaningless and soon pass away.

Gerolamo Cardano

Related topics

empty great men pass personal seen sunset value wake affairs

Related quotes

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

Joseph Addison

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Abraham Lincoln

Say not 'a small event' Why 'small' Costs it more pain that this ye call A 'great event' should come to pass From that Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed.

Robert Browning

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Black Elk

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

Woodrow Wilson