Quote #132
One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
- Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.
- Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
- Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
- Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
- Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm tha…