Post #3355

They practise nothing else but to die.
—Plato

Post #3354

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? 

—Matthew 16:26

Post #3353

I have been a stranger in a strange land.
—Exodus 2, 22

Post #3352

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
—Mark Twain

Post #3351

A man that hideth his foolishness is better than a man that hideth his wisdom.
—Ecclesiasticus 41, 15

Post #3350

They tell of Themistocles, that when a certain man of high culture and eminent learning came to him and offered to instruct him in the art of memory... Themistocles replied that he would do him a much greater favor if he would teach him the art of forgetting; for I remember what I would not, and cannot forget what I would.
—Saying of Themistocles, as recorded by Cicero.

Post #3349

Sloth never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
—Miguel de Cervantes (translated from Don Quixote)

Post #3348

The man who first ruined the Roman people was he who first gave them treats and gratuities.
—Life of Coriolanus (Plutarch quotes it as "a shrewd remark, whoever it was that said it")

Post #3347

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
—Leonardo da Vinci

Post #3346

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
—Socrates

Post #3345

Never regret a day in your life. Good days give happines, bad days give experiences, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
―Professor Richard Feynman

Post #3344

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
―George Herbert

Post #3343

"Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.
—Christian Nestell Bovee

Post #3342

The sweets we wish for, turned to loathed
     sours,
Even in the moment that we call them
     ours.
—William Shakespeare

Post #3341

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!
—Leo Tolstoy

Post #3340

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is idleness of the mind.
—Johann Gottfried Seume

Post #3339

You are pretty—we know it; and young—it is true; and rich—who can deny it? But when you praise yourself extravagantly, Fabulla, you appear neither rich, nor pretty, nor young.
—Martial

Post #3338

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
—Edmund Burke

Post #3337

Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease, and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.
—Sir Walter Raleigh

Post #3336

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
—Nicolas Chamfort