Posted on January 9, 2026 “The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.”—Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman emperor, 121 AD–180 AD
Posted on December 26, 2025 “The unscrupulous are always ready to profit from war.”—Christopher Fowler (‘Bryant & May: Peculiar London’), English author, 1953-2023
Posted on August 14, 2025August 14, 2025 “Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul….”—Emily Dickinson, American poet, 1830-1886
Posted on June 9, 2025 “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt, American president, 1882-1945
Posted on June 6, 2025June 6, 2025 “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”—Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Roman philosopher, 106-43 BC
Posted on May 24, 2025 “A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.”—(“Julius Caesar”), William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616
Posted on May 9, 2025May 9, 2025 “Being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune….Happiness is never grand.”—Aldous Huxley, English philosopher, 1894-1963
Posted on March 24, 2025March 13, 2026 “The difference between bad speech and bad deeds is opportunity.”—Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus), Roman rhetorician, c. 35 — c. 100 AD
Posted on March 22, 2025 “There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.”—Euripides, Greek dramatist, 481-407 BC
Posted on March 10, 2025 “Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.”—Doug Larson, American columnist, 1928-2017
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