"Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others."

-- Mikhail Lermontov

#Evil Quotes #Giving Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.”
“Meditate. A few minutes of deep meditation will connect you with the ocean of intuition deep within you.”
“The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below”
“Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.”
“To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) â€” this is the perpetual illusion of morality.”
“I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.”
“Everybody says your mind is the most important thing about your body. Your mind and your body. You keep both busy, and by God you'll be here a long time,”

Source : " World's oldest man dies at 114" by David Batty, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.
“The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.”

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