Source : Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). “The History of the Peloponnesian War”, Oxford University Press, USA
#Positive Quotes #Courage Quotes #Vision Quotes
“Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace.”
“The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday world can but seldom afford.”
“I suppose what I can say is that I do feel I have a natural spiritual sensibility.”
“Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.”
“It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.”
“Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.”
“True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.”
“When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.”
Aeschylus Dramatist
Aristotle Philosopher
Demosthenes Greek Statesman
Euripides Writer
Herodotus Historian
Pericles Greek Statesman
Plutarch Biographer
Socrates Philosopher
Sophocles Playwright
