“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.”
Homer
“We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.”
William Hazlitt
“A trifle consoles us because a trifle distresses us.”
Blaise Pascal
“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
“Revolutions are not about trifles, but they spring from trifles”
Aristotle
“It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”
Daniel Webster
