Selected quotes - page 10
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Thomas Aquinas
Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
I think, therefore I am.
René Descartes
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Where a man can live, he can also live well.
Marcus Aurelius
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
Anton Chekhov
It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
Thomas Sowell
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Mark Twain
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
Michel de Montaigne
You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.
Bruce Willis
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
Plutarch
The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.
Marcus Aurelius
The human soul develops up to death.
Hippocrates
Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
Euripides
Often injustice lies in what you aren't doing, not only in what you are doing.
Marcus Aurelius
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
George Orwell
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
Marcus Aurelius
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