Quotes good enough to curve your mind for the better.
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.
-Plutarch
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
-Plutarch
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? (Musicians) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die
-Thomas Carlyle
Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care, and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
You never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him. If you burn your neighbor's house down, it doesn't make your place look better.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is. Goethe
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
At the working man’s house hunger looks in but dares not enter. Ben franklin
I've got an appetite for destruction - but I scrape the plate. Jay-Z
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?" --Sydney J. Harris
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain Eric Hoffer
