“The best kind of pleasure comes from the indifference to pain … and pleasure.”
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Famous Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes
“People and things need not be interesting to us for them to be beneficial to us.”
“No longer trusting someone is even more saddening if you still love them.”
“Thinking that someone is wrong is a very common way of being wrong.”
“Sometimes the correct answer is neither ‘a’ nor ‘b’, but ‘a-b’.”
“There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.”
Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
Source: N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
“Some people are kept righteous by their not being courageous.”
“Our denial of our weakness is as profitable to our opponents as our unawareness of our strength.”
“Some of our prayers for some people clash with their prayers for themselves.”
“One of the main roles of our financial problems is to weed out our fake friends.”
“With success comes the never-ending task of blocking or weeding out fake friends.”
“Man does not really love social media; he merely hates boredom and loneliness.”
“Things such as the idea of family and that of friendship are a sign of spiritual barbarism.”
“Friendship is not something that you seek but something that finds you.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“You can be a friend to someone who is to you not a friend.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“Some confidants have wings and a beak, or four legs and a tail.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“Among other things, friendship is a mutual fight against solitude and boredom.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“We often want to hear, not what is true, but what we want to hear.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“Our friends are friends with us not for us but for themselves.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“We bother people with our problem whenever we tell them that we miss them.”
“The three most common killers of friendships are betrayal, distance, and growth.”
“We ought to readily share our successes with those with whom we readily share our problems.”
“Only a fraction of sane people enjoy their own company. The rest endure it.”
“It is humanly impossible to be an entirely bad or good person.”