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Independence

So live that you can look any ma…

29 Oct , 2009  

So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell. Anon.

Avarice

So for a good old-gentlemanly vi…

29 Oct , 2009  

So for a good old-gentlemanly vi Byron, Lord

Misery

Small miseries, like small debts…

29 Oct , 2009  

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. Colton, […]

Sleep

Sleep is the interest we have to…

29 Oct , 2009  

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. Schopenhauer, Arthur

Sleep

Sleep is perverse as human natur…

29 Oct , 2009  

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters. Nash, Ogden

Nature

Slave to no sect, who takes no p…

29 Oct , 2009  

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God. Pope, Alexander

Ability

Skill and confidence are an unco…

29 Oct , 2009  

Skill and confidence are an unconquered ar Herbert, George

Advice

Sincere advice may offend the ea…

29 Oct , 2009  

Sincere advice may offend the ear but is beneficial to one’s conduct. Chinese Proverb

Exploration

Since philosophy is the explorat…

29 Oct , 2009  

Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination. Hegel, […]

Religion

Sin has many tools, but a lie is…

29 Oct , 2009  

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Pleasure

Simple pleasures are the last re…

29 Oct , 2009  

Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. Wilde, Oscar

Fool

Silence is the wit of fools….

29 Oct , 2009  

Silence is the wit of fools. La Bruyere, Jean