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"We do not see things as they are;
We see things as WE are."
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Talmud

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
-Georges Braque

Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.











Nietzsche

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. - Aldous Huxley

It is one thing to see the land of peace from a wooded ridge.
It is another to tread the road that leads to it.














St. Augustine

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. - Robert Benchley

L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur.

St-Exupéry

Shedding the old makes way for the new.

Soon after, the Greeks, being assembled at the Isthmus, declared their resolution of joining with Alexander in the war against the Persians, and proclaimed him their general.

While he stayed here, many public ministers and philosophers came from all parts to visit him and congratulated him on his election, but contrary to his expectation, Diogenes of Sinope, who then was living at Corinth, thought so little of him, that instead of coming to compliment him, he never so much as stirred out of the suburb called the Cranium, where Alexander found him lying along in the sun.

When he saw so much company near him, he raised himself a little, and vouchsafed to look upon Alexander; and when he kindly asked him whether he wanted anything, 'Yes,' said he, 'I would have you stand from between me and the sun.'

Alexander was so struck at this answer, and surprised at the greatness of the man, who had taken so little notice of him, that as he went away he told his followers, who were laughing at the moroseness of the philosopher, that if he were not Alexander, he would choose to be Diogenes.


What do Alexander the Great, and Jack the Ripper have in common?