. . . and words of wisdom, like these:
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
– Oscar Wilde
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest."
– Confucius
calamitas virtutis occasio est. (“Catastrophe is virtue’s chance.”)
– Seneca, dial. 1.4.6
γένοι᾽ οἷος ἐσσὶ ("Become what you are.")
– Pindar, 2nd Pythian Ode (trans. Werner Jaeger)
"Don’t show me your soul—I want to see your foot."
– George Balanchine (choreographer, cofounder and ballet master of New York City Ballet)
. . . for who would lose,
Though full of pain, this intellectual being,
Those thoughts that wander through eternity,
To perish rather, swallowed up and lost
In the wide womb of uncreated Night,
Devoid of sense and motion?
– John Milton, Paradise Lost, II. 145-51
– Oscar Wilde
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest."
– Confucius
calamitas virtutis occasio est. (“Catastrophe is virtue’s chance.”)
– Seneca, dial. 1.4.6
γένοι᾽ οἷος ἐσσὶ ("Become what you are.")
– Pindar, 2nd Pythian Ode (trans. Werner Jaeger)
"Don’t show me your soul—I want to see your foot."
– George Balanchine (choreographer, cofounder and ballet master of New York City Ballet)
. . . for who would lose,
Though full of pain, this intellectual being,
Those thoughts that wander through eternity,
To perish rather, swallowed up and lost
In the wide womb of uncreated Night,
Devoid of sense and motion?
– John Milton, Paradise Lost, II. 145-51
