Aphorisms. Different

Feci quod potui, faciant meliora potentes
Я сделал все, что мог, кто может, пусть сделает лучше

Per aspera ad astra
«Через тернии к звездам»

Scio me nihil scire
Я знаю, что ничего не знаю

Veni, vidi vici
Пришел, увидел, победил.
Хоть я и люблю свою страну, я не люблю моих соотечественников.
(Byron). So wie ich mein Land liebe, so wenig mag ich meine Landsmnner( Byron)
A smile is a curve that can set a lot of things straight.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. Nietzsche

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
(Aldous Huxley)

All men are equal but some men are more equal than others.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. Victor Hugo

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.


By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed. Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf

Happiness is not doing what you want. It's wanting what you do. Leo Tolstoy

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. Voltaire

Is there life before death? Belfast Graffito

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. Honore de Balzac, "The Physiology of Marriage" 1829

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. Aldous Huxley

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. Montaigne

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now, only much, much better. Laurie Anderson

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. Somerset Maugham

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde

Sex is an emotion in motion. Mae West

Someday is not a day of the week. Anon.

Somewhere in the world there's somebody better than me....But I haven't met him yet.- Arthur Hobson from CSLP

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.George Bernard Shaw

The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told : 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness'. Nathaniel Branden

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. George Bernard Shaw

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl G. Jung

The only difference between graffiti & philosophy is the word `fuck`...Anon.

The only reward for love is the experience of loving. John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. Herb Caen

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. Anon.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. Andre Gide

THINK -- it gives you something to do while the computer is down.

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. John Erskine

Those who are absent are always wrong. English Proverb

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Bertrand Russell, Autobiography

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. Charles Caleb Colton

Truth fears no questions. Anon.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not. Virgil Thomson Advice given at age 93

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. Anon.

We give nothing so freely as advice. Francois de la Rochefoucauld

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. L. Rochefoucauld

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money. Kin Hubbard

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself. Peter O'Toole, The Ruling Class

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? Barbra Streisand
With love and patience, nothing is impossible. Daisaku Ikeda

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. Shira Tehrani

You can't have everything...where would you put it? Groucho Marx