Post #3226

There was a wise man in the East whose constant prayer was that he might see to-day with the eyes of to-morrow.
—Alfred Mercier

Post #3225

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo

Post #3224

Some must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay!
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Post #3223

"If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me —  nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd."
—John Keats

Post #3222

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.
—Andrew Carnegie

Post #3221

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
—Oscar Wilde

Pareidolia Papa

Pareidolia Papa

 

Post #3220

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. 
—Epicurus

Post #3219

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, "I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men," Epictetus replied, "I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!"
—The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

Post #3218

If at first you don't succeed - get a bigger hammer.
—Alan Lewis

Post #3217

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when you rise to battle again.
—Anonymous

Post #3216

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
—Albert Einstein

Post #3215

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
—Voltaire

Post #3214

If a man would pursue Philosophy, his first task is to throw away conceit. For it is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he has a conceit that he already knows.
—Epictetus

Post #3213

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

—Edmund Burke