"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days."

-- Plutarch

#Life Quotes #Men Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.”
“Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects”
“Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.”
“Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.”

Source : John Clare (1949). “Poems of John Clare's madness”
“Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life.”
“People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.”
“But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.”

Source : "Alvin Ailey, a Leading Figure In Modern Dance, Dies at 58" by Jennifer Dunning, www.nytimes.com. December 2, 1989.
“I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.”

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