Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.
Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.
If you would judge, understand.
If you judge, investigate.
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
Eleanor Roosevelt
What one has to do usually can be done.
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.
Understanding is a two-way street.
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.
I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.
These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.
Francis Bacon
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