"Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense. [Lat., An erit, qui velle recuset Os populi meruisse? et cedro digna locutus Linquere, nec scombros metuentia carmina nec thus.]"

-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Men Quotes #Oil Quotes #People Quotes

“Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.”

Source : Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.9
“I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.”
“Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.”

Source : "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.
“In romance, I can’t stand this scenario: A woman is awakened to find a strange man in her bedroom—and then automatically finds him attractive. I’m sorry, but if I awoke to a strange man in my bedroom, I’d be reaching for a weapon—not admiring the view.”
“That's your life. Get used to it. Don't get mad at me- you married him.”
“Forethought spares afterthought.”
“We have won on the Arlov, Kursk, Belgorod, and Kharkov grounds. We won because the country was being defended not only by the army but by the entire Soviet people. The Socialist economy, Soviet political structure, and Marxist-Leninist ideology proved their unarguable excellence against the Fascist economy, Fascist political structure, and Fascist ideology of Germany.”

Source : "I. C. Bagramyan: A Photo Album About A Soviet Marshal", Yerevan, 1987.
“Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.”

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