"History has a Nemesis for every sin."

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Source : Theodor Mommsen (1864). “The History of Rome”, p.252

Theodor Mommsen

#Historical Quotes #Sin Quotes #Nemesis Quotes

“... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for truth.'”

Source : "Eminent women of the age". Book by James Parton et. al., p. 375, 1868.
“Architecture is made of memory. The slope of a roof, the shape of a window, and the color of a door contain the record of the minds that conceived them and the hands that crafted them.”
“I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My mind is my own church.”
“Sometimes itâ€™s a sort of indulgence to think the worst of ourselves. We say, â€˜Now I have reached the bottom of the pit, now I can fall no further,â€™ and it is almost a pleasure to wallow in the darkness. The trouble is, itâ€™s not true. There is no end to the evil in ourselves, just as there is no end to the good. Itâ€™s a matter of choice. We struggle to climb, or we struggle to fall. The thing is to discover which way weâ€™re going.”
“We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude. [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]”
“If you look back on your life and where you started from it's like looking back down a mountain back to the desert floor. It's like now I can't believe I had whatever it takes or perceived whatever it took to get here.”
“Music is what feelings sound like out loud.”

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