Today Quotes
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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.Kilgore Trout, Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut. Page 19.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.Marcel Proust
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.Alfred Tennyson
A friend is a gift you give yourself.Robert Louis Stevenson
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.Socrates, Crito," (Plato)
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.Socrates, In "1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said," ed. Robert Byrne, 1988