Destroys

Famous quotes containing the word destroys:

“Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“The full moon
cannot gain
a likeness to your face,
so god destroys it
time and again,
as if to create it
by some other means.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

“Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)