"What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?"

-- Publilius Syrus

#Evil Quotes #Long Quotes #Wish Quotes

“The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life”
“A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is the link from the present to the past that gives us a spirit to address the future.”
“I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.”
“The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels away the layers of unreality. . . eventually only the core remains.”
“I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet.”

Source : "A Beautiful Mind" by Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2012.
“I only answer to two people, myself and God.”
“The best things in life don't come in adult sizes.”

You may also like:

Apuleius
Prose writer
Baltasar Gracian
Writer
Epictetus
Philosopher
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Author
Horace
Poet
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosopher
Plutarch
Biographer
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher
Terence
Playwright