From Xenophon: “Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.”
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Quote of the day 03/10/25
From Francis Bacon: “Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils.”
Quote of the day 02/03/25
From Epictetus: “Two rules we should always have ready,-that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.”
Quote of the day 10/01/24
From Marcus Tullius 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?”
Quote of the day 09/29/24
From Marcus Tullius Cicero: “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Quote of the day 11/18/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …”
Quote of the day 11/17/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “[I have learned] To read with diligence; not to rest satisfied with a light and superficial knowledge, nor quickly to assent to things commonly spoken of.”
Quote of the day 11/13/23
From Shantideva: “If there is a remedy, then what is the use of frustration? If there is no remedy, then what is the use of frustration?”
Quote of the day 11/11/23
From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
Quote of the day 11/10/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “The mind freed from passions is an impenetrable fortress—a person has no more secure place of refuge for all time.”
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