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The body politic, like the human body, begins to die from its birth, and bears in itself the causes of its destruction.
Speaker: RousseauSource: Du Contrat SocialPosted: 01 Mar 2010 at 5:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Speaker: Aldous HuxleyPosted: 08 May 2008 at 8:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others
Speaker: Marcus AureliusPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
Speaker: Robert WilenskyPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury
Speaker: Marcus AureliusPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them
Speaker: Cato the ElderPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own … You can’t clear your own fields while you’re counting the rocks on your neighbor’s farm
Speaker: CiceroPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Speaker: Thomas MannPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Speaker: Marcus AureliusPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No-one of any sense has ever bet against the scorn and resourcefulness of young men
Speaker: TychoPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 8:55 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Speaker: Albert EinsteinPosted: 14 Feb 2010 at 2:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“My other piece of advice, Copperfield,” said Mr. Micawber, “you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expendicture nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.”
Speaker: Charles DickensSource: David CopperfieldPosted: 13 Feb 2010 at 7:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Speaker: Mahatma GandhiSource: http://quotes4all.net/Posted: 10 Sep 2008 at 10:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Speaker: MAHATMA GANDHIPosted: 24 May 2009 at 1:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 31 Jan 2010 at 9:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own
Speaker: Bruce LeePosted: 31 Jan 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Speaker: Chinese proverbPosted: 31 Jan 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!