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(not many yet) :) The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left. L. TolstoiLukman was asked: -Who taught you wisdom? He answered: -Blind. They never make a step till they examine the place they are going to step on. Saad One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others` mind. I can think of it myself. " Why should one think of something, when it is already thought about. Take it and go farther, this is the strength of the mankind. L. Tolstoi What can I learn from these Greeks and Romans? They have died, are dead and we are still alive. What can they tell me that I do not know?...Then, with kindness and tolerance I began turning over the pages. I read without attention, as if looking at the fishing rod in the river. And suddenly I hold my breath, my friends...I caught, caught! Arps, Pikes, a lot of fish, strange fish, golden, silver, colorful fish...Live, dancing, jumping ... And I had thought they were dead! R. Rolan The career made by yourself is always firmer than the career made by flatter or by notable uncle`s intercession. By these two latter ways one can become a member of province`s or capital city`s big wigs, but from the very outset of world, nobody could become Washington, Garibald, Kopernik or Heine... D. Pisarev When the bad citizens do not deserve respectful posts they have got, they become even more negligent and do much more impudence and foolishness. Democrete One should not be proud of the enemy`s accidental failure. One can be convinced only when the enemy`s plans are defeated. Tukidide
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. The author creates a book and the people accept or
not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of
it`s fate are people. T. Karleil People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are. L. Tolstoi If one wants to reach the aim and stops to throw a stone at every single dog that barks at him on the way, he will never be able to reach it. T. Dostoevski Life aren`t the days that have gone, but those, that we remember. Pavlenko I loved life and fought for it`s excellence. People, I loved you and was happy when I felt the same feeling from you. And I suffered when you could not understand me...I lived for happiness, I die for happiness and it will be unfair if the sad angel will be curved on my tombstone... Fuchik There is something in the character of a person that one can never break, it is the spine of the character. Likhtenberg -The wise are wise by their knowledge? Can a person be wise by anything else than knowledge? It means wisdom is knowledge? - I think so. - But do you think a person can know everything? - No, he even can not know the smallest part of it. - So, a person can not be a wise in everything. - Of course not! - So every person is a wise in the thing he knows... - I think so. Socrates If you want to be intelligent , learn to ask reasonable questions, tranquil answers and stop talking, when nothing is left to say. E. Lafater
Having no character is a very bad character. One can look down at someone from above, just when
one wants to help him and raise him to his feet" A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist
sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
The books can be read in three ways: -reading and not
understanding.-reading and understanding, and reading and understanding
even those things that are not written. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. W. M. LewisThere is more to life than increasing speed. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the
dog. The more I get to know people, the more I love animals. Hitler Small opportunities are often the beginning of great
enterprises. It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our
humanity. Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice. Balzac Never mistake motion for action. Drinking without thirst and having sex in all seasons of the year, Madame, are the only things that make us different from other animals. Beaumarchais Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. I think it would be a good idea. Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization I have never let my schooling interfere with my
education. Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent. Jules Renard I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking. Richelieu I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. I choose such notes that love one another. Mozart The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready. We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so. Victor Hugo Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong. The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan. Balzac When my friends are single-eyed I look at them in profile. Joseph Joubert It is better to remain silent and thought a fool,
then to speak up and remove all doubt. Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders. Albert Camus A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relation. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing, too. P.J. O'Rourke |