Merely Quotes

There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear… This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity… that comes from being what we are, right now.

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

They are done merely for ornament. … the common people regard them as supernatural.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.