Compared

Famous quotes containing the word compared:

    “Heroism—that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see what a work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.”
    —Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)