The Stoic maxim: sustine et abstine. Bear and forbear. Acknowledge the pain but trod onward in your task.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Dreams become regrets when left in the mind, never planted in the soil of action.
Real power, is the power that empowers without corruption
The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.
There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.
Maybe we're just falling stars, we once danced in the same skyline looking down at the world. And we've fallen like all others, from near and far, we've gathered together, but separated by time and sp...
Traces of the same spiritual concepts and symbolism that enlighten the Egyptian texts are found all around the world among cultures that we can be certain were never in direct contact. Straightforward...
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...