Today Quotes
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.Socrates
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.George Eliot, Silas Marner (1861)
But ISir J.C. Squire, Ballade of Soporific Absorption
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)
We have to believe in free will. WeIsaac Bashevis Singer, The Times (1982)
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die no soul will pity me:
And wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?William Shakespeare, Richard III, V.iii
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.Graham Greene, Heart of the Matter (1948)
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.Albert Camus, The Rebel (1951)