"One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent."

-- Epictetus

#Sports Quotes #Philosophical Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes.”
“Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.”
“Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.”
“I don't enter, I'm entered. It's up to someone else. It's up to them.”
“There's no doubt, that if you were a Clinton Foundation donor and you wanted your calls returned, I have no doubt that people got their returned.”
“Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment”
“I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.”
“There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.”

Source : Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.977, Simon and Schuster

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