Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy [Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy] (1828 – 1910) / (There is only one corner…) (Image by jacqueline macou from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using… More »
Beauty! I can’t endure the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom. What’s still more awful is that a man with the ideal of… More »
Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 78): Emile， or On Education (Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google… More »
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 78) (Image by Alexandra ❤️A life without animals is not worth living❤️ from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of… More »
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. – Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) (Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay) (Translate and Speak by Smart Link Corporation) More »
![IMAGE: "The earth", he said, "has a skin; and this skin has diseases. One of these diseases is called, for example, 'humanity'." [The earth, said he, hath a skin; and this skin hath diseases. One of these diseases, for example, is called "man."]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/earth-1149733_640-200x133.jpg)
“The earth”, he said, “has a skin; and this skin has diseases. One of these diseases is called, for example, ‘humanity’.” [The earth, said he, hath a skin; and this skin hath diseases. One of these diseases, for example, is… More »
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. – Robert Frost (1874 – 1963) (Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine… More »
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good… More »
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) (Image by Alexandra ❤️A life without animals is not worth living❤️ from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from… More »
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) (Image by Mystic Art Design from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: A miss is as good as a mile. [An inch of a miss is as good [bad] as a mile of a miss. / An inch in missing is as bad as a mile. / An inch is good as a mile if it's a miss.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/business-163860_640-100x66.jpg)
![IMAGE: Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath (like a lump of sugar). [It is a miracle that one does not melt in one's bath.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/bathing-918720_640edit312-100x65.jpg)
![IMAGE: He who laughs on Friday shall weep on Sunday. [Fr. Tel qui rit vendredi, dimanche pleurera.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/silhouette-702191_640-100x71.jpg)
![IMAGE: Experience is the mother of wisdom. [Experience is the mother of knowledge.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/mind-767586_640-100x71.jpg)