Miscellaneous quotes
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You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.Learn fortitude and toil from me, my son,
Ache of true toil. Good fortune learn from others.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Lines 435–436 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
Voltaire1694–1778“La Bégueule” (Contes, 1772)- Voltaire1694–1778Le Mondain (1736)
The worst thing that could happen to anybody, would be to not be used for anything by anybody.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Epilogue “Reunion with Stony” (pp. 310-311)We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Introduction (1966)This world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Walpole1717–1797Letter to Lady Anne, Countess of Ossory, (15 August 1776)- Horace Walpole1717–1797Letter to Thomas Walpole (19 February 1785)
I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
The sports section records people’s accomplishments; the front page nothing but man’s failures.
