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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, read more
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.
Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. - Punica.
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. - Punica.
There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.
There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
