Source : "History of the Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides, book II, 2.43,
#Secret Quotes
“Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.”
“I was using the word awesomeness while you were still in high school, popping zits.”
“The wisest have the most authority.”
“She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said "mother," everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said "child"...”
“Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”
“Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.”
Source : Sir Muhammad Iqbal, University of the Punjab. Dept. of Iqbal Studies, University of the Punjab (1982). “Iqbal centenary papers”
“The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.”
“What happens, matters. Maybe only to us but it matters.”
Aeschylus Dramatist
Aristotle Philosopher
Demosthenes Greek Statesman
Euripides Writer
Herodotus Historian
Pericles Greek Statesman
Plutarch Biographer
Socrates Philosopher
Sophocles Playwright
