“Revolutions are not about trifles, but they spring from trifles”
Aristotle
“Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues”
“In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.”
“For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.”
“It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.”
Alan Watts
“Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.”
Samuel Butler
