A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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Category Archives: Philosophy
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能ある鷹は爪を隠す。A talented hawk hides his claws.
—Japanese Proverb
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Reality is frequently inaccurate.
—Douglas Adams
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The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
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Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
—Roy Hattersley
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A fool’s lips bring strife,
And his mouth calls for blows.
A fool’s mouth is his ruin,
And his lips are the snare of his soul.
—Proverbs 18:6, 7
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Fiat justitia ruat caelum. Let justice be done though the heavens fall.
—Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus
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Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
—Homer, The Iliad, Book IX, line 412.
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If you understand, all is as it is; if you do not understand, all is as it is.
—Zen Proverb
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To live is to war with trolls.
—Henrik Ibsen
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
—Christopher Hitchens
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If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
—Albert Einstein
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
—Sophocles
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Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
—Stephen Covey
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Raro antecedentem scelestum
Deseruit pede pœna claudo.
Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
—Horace
Wiser Than Solomon?
Today’s Quote of the Day is from the Book of Proverbs. It got a thumbs-down from Mr. Down Twinkles who apparently feels he is wiser than Solomon.
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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
—Abraham Lincoln
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The coward wretch whose hand and heart
Can bear to torture aught below,
Is ever first to quail and start
From the slightest pain or equal foe.
—Bertrand Russell
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
—Benjamin Franklin
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Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
—John Kenneth Galbraith
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Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
—Czeslaw Milosz
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Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges. In the most corrupt state are the most laws.
—Tacitus
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Our lives begin to end the day we remain silent on things that matter.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything we believe in. They must be fought.
—The Second Doctor
