When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
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Siri Hustvedt
In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
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Zadie Smith
The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind.
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Clare Francis
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come...
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A.E. Housman
More Quotes By Cicero
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?" Cicero, Orator, 46 BCBy way of...
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
