Famous quotes containing the words lawful and/or permanent:
“All things are lawful for me, but not all things are beneficial.”
—Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 6:12.
“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. This is always exhilarating and sublime.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)