A Quote by Publilius Syrus
Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
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Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)
In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't.
Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.
Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the family setting. A family should be a place where comfort is experienced and understood, so that the people are prepared to give comfort to others.
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.
A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
We love comfort, and people make a lot of money selling us comfort, but I would challenge the notion that comfort is usually good for us.
The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be.
The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts.
Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.
People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.
I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort.
Old age is a shipwreck.
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
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