"[So] Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom."

-- Horace

#Wisdom Quotes #Folly Quotes

“This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing ***** were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.”
“The Christian truth is attractive and persuasive because it responds to humanity's deepest needs.”
“Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.”
“Frustration is not a work plan.”
“My body and its condition are a barometer that is always trying to tell me which direction to go for my maximum creativity, health and fulfillment. And, because I'm human, I get off track now and again but I can always get back on.”
“It is a pity that Elizabeth and I cannot marry each other. Our children would have gained mastery over the whole world.”

Source : "Woman Through the Ages: Volume 2". Book by Emil Reich, p. 38, 1908.
“It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.”
“Everybody knows how awful the world is and each person distorts it in a certain way that enables him to get through. Some people distort it with religious things, others with sports, money, love, art, and they all have their own nonsense about what makes it meaningful, and all but nothing makes it meaningful. These things definitely serve a certain function, but in the end they all fail to give life meaning and everyone goes to his grave in a meaningless way.”

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