“The just man is most free from disturbance, while the unjust is full of the utmost disturbance.”
-Epicurus
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1090 – “No vaya por generalidades en el vivir, si ya no fuere en favor de la virtud, ni intime leyes precisas al querer, que avrá de bever mañana del agua que desprecia hoi.”
“Don’t live by generalities, unless it be to act virtuously, and don’t ask desire to follow precise laws, for you will have to drink tomorrow from the water you scorn today.”
-Baltasar Gracián
(more…)1081 – “… Vindt maar mooi zooveel je kunt, de meesten vinden niet genoeg mooi.”
“… find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”
-Vincent van Gogh
(more…)1077-「失败不是跌倒,而是拒绝起床。」
“Shībài bùshì diédǎo, ér shì jùjué qǐchuáng.”
“Failure is not falling down, but refusing to get up.”
-Chinese Proverb
(more…)1108 – José Martí on Knowing the Truth
“En el periódico, en la cátedra, en la academia, debe llevarse adelante el estudio de los factores reales del país. Conocerlos basta, sin vendas ni ambages; porque el que pone de lado, por voluntad u olvido, una parte de la verdad, cae a la larga por la verdad que le faltó, que crece en la negligencia, y derriba lo que se levanta sin ella. Resolver el problema después de conocer sus elementos, es más fácil que resolver el problema sin conocerlos.”
“Newspapers, universities and schools should encourage the study of the country’s real factors. To know them is sufficient, without mincing words; for whoever brushes aside even a part of the truth, whether through intention or oversight, is doomed to fall. The truth he lacks thrives on negligence, and brings down whatever is built without it. It is easy to resolve our problem knowing its components than resolve them without knowing them.”
-José Martí
(more…)1061 – “A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family’s love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.”
1020 – “Es ist immer etwas Wahnsinn in der Liebe. Es ist aber immer auch etwas Vernunft im Wahnsinn.”
“There is always some madness in love. But the is also always some reason in madness.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
(more…)1012 – “Mas, sea verdad o sueño, obrar bien es lo que importa. Si fuere verdad, por serlo; si no, por ganar amigos para cuando despertemos.”
“But whether it be truth or dream, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth’s sake. If not, then to gain friends for when we awaken.”
-Segismundo in Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s play La vida es sueño
(more…)997 – Abiy Ahmed Ali on Our Lifelong Assignment to Make the World Better
“What we need to make our first and primary task is and where our struggle ought to concentrate on is upon ourselves. We have to cleanse our thoughts from hatred; different political views and religion are our blessings, we have to conduct them with love. Even if there are disagreements arising from our differences, we should side with justice rather than injustice and correct our moral lenses. Justice should be our main principle; love and respect for all human beings ought to be our moral compass. This is our eternal job that cannot be completed and a work that needs to be always performed. It is our lifelong assignment.”
-Abiy Ahmed Ali, 15th Prime Minister of Ethiopia
(more…)990 – “Pour accomplir de grandes choses il ne suffit pas d’agir, il faut rêver; il ne suffit pas de calculer, il faut croire.”
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
-Anatole France
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