If we seek things that are virtuous and lovely, we surely will find them. Conversely, if we seek for evil, we will find that also.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.
We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.