Famous Quotes of the day

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

“Everybody can get angry that's easy. But getting angry at the right person, with the right intensity, at the right time, for the right reason and in the right way that's hard.”

“I am not what I know. I know not what I am. A thing, yet not a thing. A point as well as a circle.”

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

“[H]e educated the sons of chieftains in the liberal arts and gave higher marks to the talents of the Britons than to the studied skill of the Gauls, with the result that those who recently rejected the Latin language desired eloquence. Then too our manner of dress became stylish and there was widespread use of the toga; and gradually they gave in to the attractions of vices, porticoes and baths and the elegance of banquets. And this was called civilization among those who did not know better, *although it was part of slavery.*”