TIMELY WISDOM

Friday, December 2, 2011

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
- Saint Augustine

One crime has to be concealed by another.
- Seneca

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
- Plato

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
- Marcus Aurelius

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
- Seneca

World history is a court of judgment.
- Hegel

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
- Schopenhauer

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
- Epicurus

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
- Nietzsche

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.
- Virgil


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