"I maintain, then, that we should make peace, not only with the Chians, the Rhodians, the Byzantines and the Coans, but with all mankind..."

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Source : Isocrates (1962). “Isocrates”, Loeb Classical Library

Isocrates

#Peace Quotes #Byzantine Quotes #Should Quotes

“Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.”
“Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention.”
“Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.”
“More than anything, it's been a transition into embracing my destiny. I have everything around me to be able to do this properly. Whether or not I was hiding from that early on, I think now it's great to feel that way. It's just the journey.”
“I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it into Chris Mihm & Kwame Brown?”
“There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria”

Source : "Update: 2015: Choosing between “Two Devils”-Jonathan And Buhari,”corruption personified And Islamic-Bigot”; do you really have a choice in 2015?", republicreporters.com. November 6, 2014.
“In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.”
“Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.”

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