today’s quotes from M
Posted by John on August 24th, 2009
Take what you wish, leave the rest in peace.
Look with all your eyes, look. -Jules Verne
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. -H.P. Lovecraft
Freedom has no barcode. -J.G. Ballard
RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. -Ambrose Bierce
There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything. -Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Who then is free? The wise man, who is lord over himself, whom neither poverty, or death, nor bonds affright, who bravely defies his passions, and scorns ambition, who in himself is whole and rounded, so that nothing outside can rest on the polished surface, and against whom Fortune in her onset is ever defeated. -Horace
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who will watch the watchers? -Juvenal
It takes a very long time to become young. -Pablo Picasso
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