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saluqi:
Monday Quotations
Go to http://quotationspage.com/random.php3 and read until you find five quotes that speak your truth.
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.
Lao Tse
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
(I'm not normally that big on the Stoics, and I would add to that statement that one needs to expand one's power as far as it will stretch, in order to maximise the opportunities for "best use")
Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
And an extra bonus one which I've encountered, more than once, and which made me laugh like a drain:
ADORE, v.t. To venerate expectantly.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
saluqi:Monday Quotations
Go to http://quotationspage.com/random.ph
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.
Lao Tse
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
(I'm not normally that big on the Stoics, and I would add to that statement that one needs to expand one's power as far as it will stretch, in order to maximise the opportunities for "best use")
Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
And an extra bonus one which I've encountered, more than once, and which made me laugh like a drain:
ADORE, v.t. To venerate expectantly.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
