"No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best."

-- Plato

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“The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. [Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]”
“I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines.”
“Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he's wrong.”
“Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.”

Source : Edward Forbes (1843). “Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean Sea: And on Their Distribution, Considered as Bearing on Geology”
“For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?”

Source : "What is Mathematics?" by Richard Courant, (p. xix), 1941.
“If you're going to be a sinner, be the best sinner on the block.”

Source : "Character: Anton LaVey". "Satanis: The Devil's Mass", www.imdb.com. 1970.
“We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.”

Source : Chuck Klosterman (2013). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.88, Faber & Faber
“Tony Bennett is still giving concerts, still singing. It's keeping him alive. He's in his late 80s now and he keeps going and going. I maintain, God bless him, it's this devotion to duty and working and being in front his audience.”

Source : Source: www.news-journalonline.com

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