“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only for wallowing in.”
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. -Franklin, Benjamin
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. -Franklin, Benjamin
"Pathos would make you cry. It would enlist your sentiments. Pathos has those things as its end. They want you to feel emotions. The emotions rule. Tragedy doesn’t think of those as its end. It’s a big difference." – John Iorio
“Pathos would make you cry. It would enlist your sentiments. Pathos has those things as its end. They …
"This is a fight I’m taking very seriously and there’s going to be fireworks on March 4, … I’m going over there to do my thing. I won’t be denied." – Jeff Lacy
“This is a fight I’m taking very seriously and there’s going to be fireworks on March 4, … …
W. H. Auden
“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I …
"The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies their doing whatever they please with the world, just the way Hitler’s mythology of Aryan superiority justified his doing whatever he pleased with Europe. But in the end this mythology is not deeply satisfying. The Takers are a profoundly lonely people. The world for them is enemy territory, and they live in it like an army of occupation, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary specialness." – Daniel Quinn
“The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to …
I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. -Gibbon, Edward
I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. -Gibbon, Edward
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular. -La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular. -La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
The love we give away is the only love we keep. -Elbert Hubbard
The love we give away is the only love we keep. -Elbert Hubbard
I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens. -Allen, Woody
I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens. -Allen, Woody