“Should a garden look as if the gardener worked on his knees? I ask you.” — Lincoln Steffens
(Source: futilitycloset.com)
I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all but glory.”
—
Cicero
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“A multitude of books confuses the mind. Accordingly, since you cannot read all the books which you may possess, it is enough to possess only as many books as you can read.” — Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius
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bibliobibuli
n. the sort of people who read too much
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“Most people consider a glass as half empty or half full. I look at it as too big.” — George Carlin
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You will be deprived of a mother. As your mother, I wish I could protect you from the pain. But also as your mother, I want you to feel the pain, to live it, embrace it, and then learn from it. Be stronger people because of it, for you will know that you carry my strength within you.
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”
— Bertrand Russel, https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/11/30/unquote-595/
(via My parenting book)
