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“Knowing the power of Necessity is irresistible.” Prometheus
Speaker: AeschylusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Power newly won is always harsh.” Hephaestus
Speaker: AeschylusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
[Prometheus] believed in, and wanted to help, the human race as it is, full of both noble achievement and pitiable squalor, honoring both goodness and wickedness; a race where virtue, if rare, is at least costly.
Speaker: Philip VellacottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
God, the playwright says, is concerned that man should learn wisdom, and has marked out the path; and it is a path of suffering. Men are in one sense free to learn or not to learn; but the painful condition of learning is inexorable. The nature of God, in other words, comprises two elements or principles, one harsh, the other gentle.
Speaker: Philip VellacottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The opinions of our enemies come nearer to the truth about us than do our own opinions.
Speaker: Francois de la RouchefoucaldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes of every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding that limit.
Speaker: Elbert HubbardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If I were to read, much less to answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won’t matter. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:20 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The turbulent billows of the fretful surface leave the deep parts of the ocean undisturbed; and to him who has a hold on vaster and more permanent realities, the hourly vicissitudes of his personal destiny seem relatively insignificant things. The really religious person is accordingly unshakable and full of equanimity, and calmly ready for any duty that the day may bring forth.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We and God have business with each other; and in opening ourselves to His influence, our deepest destiny is fulfilled.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Speaker: Francis BaconPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.
Speaker: SantayanaPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:17 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives the roses.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.
Speaker: William BulithoPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Happiness is not mostly pleasure; it is mostly victory.
Speaker: Harry Emerson FosdickPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:15 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I can’t a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.
Speaker: Walter RaleighPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Speaker: Logan Pearsall SmithPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I had the blues because I had no shoes
Until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am going to meet people today who talk too much – people who are selfish, egotistical, and ungrateful. But I won’t be surprised or disturbed, for I couldn’t imagine a world without such people.
Speaker: Marcus AureliusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!