"To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!"

--

Coventry Patmore

“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.”
“It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.”

Source : Caleb Carr (2001). “Killing Time”, p.10, Random House
“I like fixing things.”
“Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.”
“In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius...”

Source : Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.30, Tuttle Publishing
“It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.”
“All who surrender will be spared ; whoever does not surrender but opposes with struggle and dissension, shall be annihilated .”
“The fear of God kills all other fears.”

Source : Hugh Black (1910). “Comfort”

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