Tom Stoppard
View AuthorLife is a game of terrible odds; if it were a bet, you wouldn't get involved in it.
Johann August Strindberg
View AuthorWhen you're twenty, you think you've solved the enigma of the world; at thirty, you reflect on it, and at forty, you discover that it's insoluble.
Johann August Strindberg
View AuthorOne cannot have any other task in life than to preserve it until death.
Jonathan Swift
View AuthorNo wise man ever wished to be young.
Jonathan Swift
View AuthorArbitrary power constitutes a natural temptation for a prince, like wine or women for a young man, or bribery for a judge, or greed for the old, or vanity for a woman.
Tacitus
View AuthorIt's okay for women to cry, for men to remember.
Tacitus
View AuthorFor those who aspire to power, there is no middle ground between the summit and the precipice.
Tacitus
View AuthorPower obtained by wrongful means was never exercised for good purposes.
Tacitus
View AuthorPower is never stable when it is unlimited.
Tacitus
View AuthorNature grants freedom even to animals.
Tacitus
View AuthorA honorable death is better than a shameful life.
Rabindranath Tagore
View AuthorIf you cry because you've lost the sun, the tears won't let you see the stars.