I love myself, I no longer need Cupid. . .
How we are born to invent our own miseries!
Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived.
Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.
Can mortal prayers ensure immortal happiness?
Benevolence, like religion, awes even those it cannot win.
Let us respect even error when it has its source in virtue.
I take a multivitamin, vitamin D, and omega-3 oils every day, and if I'm stressed or run- down, I bulk up on vitamin C and zinc.
Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.
Dogs: the best friend you will ever have that pees on your couch and stays your friend.
A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.