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daily quote...
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
~Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) -
daily quote...
In regione caecorum rex est luscus.
(In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.)
~Desiderius Erasmus 1466-1536 -
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Desinent homines tum demum stultescare quando esse desinent
[Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men]
~Burton, Robert (1577-1640) -
time travel theory.....
time travel will never be possible. For starters, it is self defeating. The reason for inventing time travel is to fix something that happened in the past. Once it is fixed, the event never occurs, and there is no reason to go back in time to make sure it never happens. If nobody ever makes sure it doesn't happen, we slip back into the original ( Read more... ) -
new quote
"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come to us, and when death has come, we are not."
~Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC) -
todays quote...
"The man of knowledge be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends."
~Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) -
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"We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?"
Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD) -
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"Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful."
~Martin Luther (1483 - 1546) -
and one for my fellow misanthropes....
"I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability"
~ Oscar Wilde -
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"Outside of a dog, a book is mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
~Groucho Marx