"Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being."

-- Plotinus

#Identical Quotes

“I've done everything but tap dance across the table.”
“I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me a two-coloured face, is a goitre, a hump on the back, webbed toes, and makes me stink like the night-man. Once again I learn what I knew on my very first day at Kensington School, and have carelessly forgotten, that it is more intelligent to appear less intelligent. I henceforth rein myself in, and publicly give back only what I have been given - fifty-six for seven- eights.”
“The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof.”
“But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.”
“The daughter never ever gives up on the mother, just as the mother never gives up on the daughter. There is a tie there so strong that nothing can break it.”
“I will do today that which is of today and pay no heed to the tomorrow; nor waste regrets on that which was yesterday.”
“All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.”
“That's good advice for any young person to remember who aspires to leadership in corporate or public life. Develop a thick skin when it comes to the press. Remember you're never as bad-or as good-as the press says you are.”

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