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Wise quotes from the Ancients

Wise quotes from the Ancients, the best quotations and aphorisms from the old great Greek, Roman and oriental philosophers and thinkers who formed our culture; edited by our Carl William Brown. (Find …

Top 100 great quotes

Top 100 great quotes and aphorisms so that you can start caring a bit more about the struggle against human stupidity, edited for the World of English blog by Carl William Brown, …

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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
Stephen Hawking

Life is, in fact, a struggle. On this point pessimists and optimists agree. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty is beautiful, but rare; goodness is often apt to be weak, folly to be arrogant, and wickedness to prevail; fools in the places of honor and the best aloof; and humanity, as a whole, unhappy.
Henry James

As far as the development of human happiness is concerned I would say that egoism is the higher form of stupid ignorance that prevents it.
Carl William Brown

A good aphorism should not only highlight obvious things, even if expressed in an original way, but also evoke solutions, though unpleasant for human stupidity.
Carl William Brown

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Carl William Brown

Indeed, the condition of human nature is just this; man towers above the rest of creation so long as he realizes his own nature, and when he forgets it, he sinks lower than the beasts. For other living things to be ignorant of themselves, is natural; but for man it is a defect.
Boethius