The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

To achieve our goals we need perseverance

We came to save the sacred writings. - Essenes to Eleazar, on collecting the Dead Sea Scrolls from the burning Temple. Jerusalem, 70 CE.

He who knows to be afraid has a higher chance of living!

days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

It's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.

Why are we here on earth? To create. It's in our nature.

Without Prayer nothing good is done. God's works are done with our hands joined, and on our knees. Even when we run, we must remain spiritually kneeling before Him.

I am different - if you can find another like me, then I will buy you dinner!