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Quote of the Day

Posted on 6 May, 2022 by wjjhoge
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I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

—Plutarch

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 5 May, 2022 by wjjhoge
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

—Aristophanes

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 23 April, 2022 by wjjhoge
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

—Victor Hugo

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 12 April, 2022 by wjjhoge
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

—Albert Camus

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 2 April, 2022 by wjjhoge
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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

—Robert E. Howard

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 24 March, 2022 by wjjhoge
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The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

—Arthur C. Clarke

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 23 March, 2022 by wjjhoge
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

—Oscar Wilde

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 20 March, 2022 by wjjhoge
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We learn about life not from pluses alone, but from minuses as well.

—Anton Chekov

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 15 March, 2022 by wjjhoge
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

—Aristophanes

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 14 March, 2022 by wjjhoge
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Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

—Peter Ustinov

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 13 March, 2022 by wjjhoge
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

—William James

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 23 January, 2022 by wjjhoge
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C’est une maladie naturelle à l’homme de croire qu’il possède la vérité directement … It is a natural illness of man to think that he possesses the truth directly …

—Blaise Pascal

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 14 January, 2022 by wjjhoge
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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

—Thomas Paine

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 2 January, 2022 by wjjhoge
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We have searched the wide world over and not found forgetfulness.

—Fritz Leiber

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 31 December, 2021 by wjjhoge
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Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

—G.K. Chesterton

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 30 December, 2021 by wjjhoge
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Quicquid servatur, cupimus magis: ipsaque furem
Cura vocat. Pauci, quod sinit alter, amant.
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief.
Few love what they may have.

—Ovid

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 26 December, 2021 by wjjhoge
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To assert dignity is to lose it.

—Rex Stout

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 13 December, 2021 by wjjhoge
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Ignavissimus quisque, et ut res docuit, in periculo non ausurus, nimis verbis et lingua feroces. Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

—Tacitus

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 10 December, 2021 by wjjhoge
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Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot.

—John Calvin

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 2 December, 2021 by wjjhoge
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Good breeding doesn’t mean that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice when someone else does.

—Anton Chekhov

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 30 November, 2021 by wjjhoge
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The man who esteems himself as he ought, and no more than he ought, seldom fails to obtain from other people all the esteem that he himself thinks due. He desires no more than is due to him, and he rests upon it with complete satisfaction.

—Adam Smith

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 25 November, 2021 by wjjhoge
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Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum omnium reliquarum. A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 24 November, 2021 by wjjhoge
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Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.

—Wilhelm II, German Emperor

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 21 November, 2021 by wjjhoge
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Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

—Robert Frost

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 19 November, 2021 by wjjhoge
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

—T. S. Eliot

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