"Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing."

-- Claudius Claudianus

#Virtue Quotes #Worthless Quotes

“The weather of Depression is unmodulated, its light a brownout.”
“The end of pain we take as happiness.”

Source : Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text
“Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What then brings the joy we so much desire? Are some people just lucky, while others have run out of luck? Strange as it may sound, we can choose joy. Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently than the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it. What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.”
“I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots.”
“Science is our last and greatest frontier.”
“Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli OHara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: Laura Osnes Enters Café Society". Interview with Ellis Nassour, www.theatermania.com. June 19, 2012.
“I don't think America needs 28,000 men on Okinawa. I don't think we need an army in Germany. What's it for, to protect Germans against the Russians, to protect the French against the Germans? It's just there by inertia, that's my reading of it. I don't think we need an army in South Korea because North Korea is absolutely no threat to South Korea.”
“One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.”

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