The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. – Plutarch (46 – 119) (Image by Meine Reise geht hier leider zu Ende. Märchen beginnen mit from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine… More »
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. – Socrates (469? – 399B.C.) (Image by congerdesign from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine… More »
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates (469? – 399B.C.) / (I know nothing…) / (We can know only…) (Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google… More »
Envy is the ulcer of the soul. – Socrates (469? – 399B.C.) / (“ulcer” = a painful area on your skin or inside your body that may bleed or produce poisonous substances) (Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by… More »
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. – Aristotle (384 – 322B.C.) / (The first and best…) (Image by moritz320 from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of… More »
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. – Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43B.C.) (Image by DEZALB from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 82) / (He that falls today…) (Image by Paul Schalles from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using… More »
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 82) (Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from… More »
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let… More »
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – Albert Camus (1913 – 1960) (Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay)… More »
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