Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
..Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.”
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.”
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself, Love possesses not nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto love.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Consider sufficient what you have in the present, but don't stop to look for the best.
Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.