“The lover of truth who is truthful even when nothing is at stake will be keener to tell the truth when something is at stake.”— Aristotle, amazon.com
“Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”— Immanuel Kant, amazon.com
“Endeavor as much as you can, to keep company with people above you: there you rise, as much as you sink with people below you...Do not mistake when I say company above you, and think that I mean with regard to their birth: that is the least consideration but I mean with regard to their merit and the…”— Lord Chesterfield, amazon.com
“It is a sure sign of a little mind to be doing one thing, and at the same time to be either thinking of another, or not thinking at all. One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.”— Lord Chesterfield, amazon.com
“I would rather be in company with a dead man, than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt.”— Lord Chesterfield, amazon.com
“Remains of antiquity, public buildings, paintings, sculptures, etc ought to be seen and that with a proper degree of attention but this is soon done, for they are only outsides. It is not so with more important objections; the insides of which must be seen; and they require and deserve much more att…”— Lord Chesterfield, amazon.com
“In my opinion the definition of sobriety is the ability to live comfortably, peacefully and joyously with me... Sobriety is physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Four parts of the same thing and it adds up to the ability to live comfortably, peacefully and joyously with me.”— Chuck "C", amazon.com
“The one thing we can't change about our lives, the only thing that cannot be changed by us, is that we're stuck with ourselves forever.”— Chuck "C", amazon.com
“Prince, Subject, Father, Son, are things forgot, For every man alone thinks he hath got To be a Phoenix, and that then can be None of that kind, of which he is, but he.”— John Donne, amazon.com
“When a stupid man sticks a knife in you, it takes 10 wise men to pull it out—it goes in so crooked.”— Yiddish Proverb, observer.com
“Wycliffe says that if you do not object strenuously to a superior's bad behavior, you are as bad, as guilty as he is of what happens.”— Marilynne Robinson, nytimes.com
“He who grasps everything himself is best of all; he is noble also who listens to one who has spoken well; but he who neither grasps it himself nor takes to hear what he hears from another is a useless man.”— Aristotle, Hesoid, amazon.com
“There is a subject nowadays which is taboo in the way that sexuality was once taboo; which is to talk about life as if it had any meaning.”— Viktor Frankl, amazon.com
“If I don't do it—who will do it? And if I don't do it right now—when should I do it? But if I do it for my own sake only—what am I?”— Viktor Frankl, amazon.com
“Man, by having become a human being, in no way ceases to remain an animal, anymore than an airplane ceases to be capable of moving around the ground of the airport.”— Viktor Frankl, amazon.com