Posted on December 11, 2022 “To write one’s memoirs is to speak ill of everybody except oneself.”—Henri Pétain, French ambassador, 1876-1944
Posted on November 18, 2022November 17, 2022 “He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.”—Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher, 604-531 BC
Posted on October 18, 2022October 18, 2022 “Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”—Napoleon Bonaparte, French statesman, 1769-1821
Posted on October 3, 2022 “Solemnity is the shield of idiots.”—Montesquieu, French philosopher, 1689-1750
Posted on September 21, 2022September 20, 2022 “When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will win.”—Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher, 604-531 BC
Posted on September 19, 2022September 18, 2022 “There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.”—Herman Melville, American novelist, 1819-1891
Posted on September 16, 2022 “Would you rise in the world, veil ambition with the forms of humanity.”—Chinese proverb
Posted on September 14, 2022 “Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.”—Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus), Roman philosopher, 1st century BC
Posted on September 12, 2022 “You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.”—Aristophanes, Greek playwright, 446-386 BC
Posted on September 10, 2022September 10, 2022 “What greater grief than the loss of one’s native land?”—Euripides, Greek dramatist, 481-407 BC
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