Vain is the hope of finding ...

Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.
Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.
 Susanne Katherina Langer
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.
 Stephen Mallinder
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought, the answers to everything. And since the end of the Cold War, I'm just a dumb as everyone else.
 Jules Feiffer

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupery