"Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise."

-- Marcus Aurelius

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“When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails. But nations without great military power face the opposite danger: When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like nails.”
“What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.”
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
“He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.”

Source : Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.97, Xist Publishing
“The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent.”
“I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.”

Source : "Steve Buscemi talks 'Sopranos,' 'Interview'". www.today.com. July 11, 2007.
“all the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution ...”
“I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.”

Source : Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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