Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Epictetus

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

Ethel Barrett

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

Origen

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Abraham Lincoln

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

Deng Xiaoping

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... .this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.

Richard Bach

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Germaine Greer

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

Georg Buchner

There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less gone?All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe, Dream Within A

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

John H. Patterson

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Willa Cather