Even if it's just a little thing, something like a song, there's still that sort of common language, that common denominator that we can all relate to.
Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.
Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.
Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?
Government exists only for the good of the governed.
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.
Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
You decent?” I pulled the towel up a little higher. “Yes, if my wrinkled toes don’t offend. ” Marco’s swarthy head popped around the doorjamb. “Naw, they’re cute.