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Robert Anderson, fully Robert Woodruff Anderson
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
Difficulty | Little | Wisdom |
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Boethius, fully Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius NULL
Keep the middle path of strength and virtue, lest you be overwhelmed by misfortune or corrupted by pleasant fortune. All that falls short or goes too far ahead, has contempt for happiness, and gains not the reward for labor done. It rests in your own hands what shall be the nature of the fortune which you choose to form for yourself. For all fortune which seems difficult, either exercises virtue, or corrects or punishes vice.
Contempt | Fortune | Labor | Misfortune | Nature | Reward | Strength | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom | Misfortune |
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
Conversation | Wisdom |
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Georges Duhamel, Pen name Denis Thevenin
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.
To make clear fundamental ends and valuations, and to set them for the fast in the emotional life of an individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to perform in the social life of a man... They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
Ends | Important | Individual | Life | Life | Man | Religion | Revelation | Wisdom |
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
Philosophy is not opposed to science; it behaves itself as if it were a science, and to a certain extent it makes use of the same methods; but it parts company with science, in that it clings to the illusion that it can produce a complete and coherent picture of the universe, though in fact that picture must needs fall to pieces with every new advance in our knowledge.
Illusion | Knowledge | Philosophy | Science | Universe | Wisdom |