"However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal."

-- Pliny the Younger

#Forget Everything Quotes #Done Quotes #May Quotes

“We're not so poor that we have to spend our wilderness or so rich that we can afford to.”
“Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.”
“Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature”
“I believe that requiring those already in Texas to obtain driverâ€™s licenses would ensure they pass a driverâ€™s test and meet the requirements to obtain auto insurance.”
“Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.”
“How do we receive the highest mystery of Divine love to us ? the mystery of the Christian faith? With our mind, heart and life; with our free will? Are all the three powers of our souls penetrated by holy faith, as were the souls of the saints? The kingdom of heaven 'is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till the whole was leavened' (Lk. 13:21). The three measures are the three powers of the soul.”
“What really surprised me was how strange my paintings are anyway. To me, it's like, "Let's paint some portraits and some objects. Don't make it weird, just make it dead straight," but it's still weird. I don't know why. I guess it's just the way I see things.”
“Science ... is organized common sense.”

Source : Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919). “The field of philosophy: an outline of lectures on introduction to philosophy”

You may also like:

Catullus
Poet
Josephus
Historian
Livy
Historian
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosopher
Pliny the Elder
Author
Quintilian
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher
Suetonius
Historian
Tacitus
Historian