"Forgiveness is better than revenge."

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Pittacus of Mytilene

#Forgiveness Quotes #Revenge Quotes

“An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.”
“I'm a genius. I'm like Prince.”
“All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.”

Source : Leila Aboulela (2007). “Minaret: A Novel”, p.158, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.”
“To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.”

Source : "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism". Lecture, August 04, 1921.
“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.”
“The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.”
“When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die.”

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