"If death is the end of everything, then living is everything."

-- Robert D. Richardson

#Thinking Quotes #Ends Quotes

“You can throw a bucket of cold water on Russians, and we can take it. But one shouldn't humiliate us!”
“I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.”
“I have a radar built inside me to avoid punches”
“I love 'Game of Thrones.”
“During a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini that they rose as one man and applauded him. When the spontaneous cheering has subsided, Toscanini turned to his men, tears glistening in his eyes. "Please . . . please! Don't do this! You see, gentlemen, it isn't me you should applaud. It's Beethoven!"”
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.”
“It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 3),
“The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.”

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