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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

By theme : Life Time

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

To know what to ask is already to know half.

Aristotle

By theme : Wisdom

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

By theme : Liberty

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

By theme : Humor Wit

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can`t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can`t sleep with the window open.