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What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent
of the undertaking and the accomplishment read more
What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent
of the undertaking and the accomplishment of your wish?
[Lat., Quid tam dextro pede concipis ut te conatus non poeniteat
votique peracti?]
A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him read more
A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
Never allow a person to tell you "no" who doesn't have the power to say "yes."
Never allow a person to tell you "no" who doesn't have the power to say "yes."
Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while while they are going to heaven somehow make me read more
Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while while they are going to heaven somehow make me very glad that we're going to separate destinations
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least
I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who read more
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set read more
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."
