"Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]"

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Horace

#Gold Quotes #Silver Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.”
“Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.”

Source : Michael Cunningham (2010). “By Nightfall: A Novel”, p.198, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.”
“History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.”
“Keep moving forward, don't listen to the naysayers, persevere, be persistent.”

Source : Source: abnormaluse.com
“Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.”

Source : Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster
“Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.”
“I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit.”

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