For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.
Name one hero who was happy." I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back." You...
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Madeline Miller
Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable.
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C. Joybell C.
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian...
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Erich Fromm
€7, 500, first-class, everything–and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.
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More Quotes By Isaac Newton
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst...
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
