Asked what condition of man most deserves pity, Ben Franklin answered, “A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.”
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Moving Backwards
“He who moves not forward, goes backward.” — Goethe
Seneca on Wisdom
“No man was ever wise by chance.” — Seneca
The Brain of Your Dreams
Curiously, when Anatole France died in 1924, doctors found that his brain was two-thirds normal size. But, said surgeon Louis Guillaume, “It was the most beautiful brain one could dream of seeing. Its convolutions were marvelous.”
A Critique on Walt Whitman
“Walt Whitman is as unacquainted with art as a hog is with mathematics.” — London Critic, 1855
The Truth
“There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths.
It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
Socrates on Wealth
“Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.” — Socrates
Juvena on Honesty
“Honesty is praised and starves.” — Juvena
Oliver Wendell Holmes on Civilized Men
“To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Lycurgus on Hair
Lycurgus wrote, “A large head of hair adds beauty to a good face and terror to an ugly one.”
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