May 2013
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April 2013
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March 2013
3 posts
“Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we...”
– Napoleon Bonaparte (via thewanderingminds)
“Money is the McMansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after 10 years....”
– Kevin Spacey as Francis Underwood (via thequarryboy)
February 2013
26 posts
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“When he died he would not end. The world would end.”
– Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo
“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by...”
– Stanley Kubrick (via odhrannaughton)
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“Like all men in Babylon, I have been proconsul; like all, a slave. I have also...”
– “The Lottery in Babylon” (via contextfreeborges)
“I close my eyes and see a flock of birds. The vision lasts a second, or perhaps...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, “Argumentum Ornithologicum” (trans. Andrew Hurley)
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January 2013
43 posts
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“in pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello”
– In peace, like a wise man, he appropriately prepares for war
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“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.”
– Euripides
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“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy;...”
– Socrates
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“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my...”
– (via zamisingson)
“The great theatre for virtue is conscience.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero (via curiosity-quotes) 