One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.
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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or read more
To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
It's not that life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long.
It's not that life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long.
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great Butcher
.. how much responsibility
does Aristotle his teacher have?
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great Butcher
.. how much responsibility
does Aristotle his teacher have?
I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to read more
I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught read more
In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality?
All evils are equal when they are extreme.
All evils are equal when they are extreme.
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
