"It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, - being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.""

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Source : Athenaeus (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Athenaeus (Illustrated)”, p.471, Delphi Classics

Athenaeus

#Men Quotes #Sake Quotes #Losing Quotes

“We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. â€¦ Our brains and nervous systems did not suddenly spring into existence without long antecedents in natural history. That which we most prize as integral to our humanity - our extraordinary capacity to think on complex conceptual levels - can be traced back to the nerve network of primitive invertebrates, the ganglia of a mollusk, the spinal cord of a fish, the brain of an amphibian, and the cerebral cortex of a primate.”
“I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.”

Source : "Mads Mikkelsen on A Royal Affair: Q&A". The Star interview, www.thestar.com. January 31, 2013.
“I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.”

Source : Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 12, 1997.
“If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?”
“Teach a child good manners during babyhood.”
“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.”
“The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.”

Source : "Alito: Threat to Judicial Independence at Historic High" by Michael Scholl, October 4, 2006.
“In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.”

Source : John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

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