After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
-Cato The Elder
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
-Cato The Elder
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. So we have to know how to act.
Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
-Mother Teresa
Scholars who incessantly contemplate on acquiring strength and knowledge should also consider it their moral duty to impart knowledge to the ignorant, so that they can develop their mental faculties. This would automatically lead to the latter’s self-development and spiritual progress.
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb