![IMAGE: The first and best [greatest] victory is to conquer self [yourself]; to be conquered by self [yourself] is of all things most shameful and vile.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/book-2127252_640-200x133.jpg)
The first and best [greatest] victory is to conquer self [yourself]; to be conquered by self [yourself] is of all things most shameful and vile. – Plato [Platon] (427 – 347B.C.) / (I count him braver…) (Image by moritz320 from… More »
![IMAGE: Wise men speak [talk] because they have something to say; fools (speak [talk]) because they have to say something.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/bronze-610837_640-200x133.jpg)
Wise men speak [talk] because they have something to say; fools (speak [talk]) because they have to say something. – Plato [Platon] (427 – 347B.C.) / (or, Author Unknown?) (Image by mvivirito0 from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using… 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 »
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the… 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 »
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them. – Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov (1860 – 1904) / (All that non-fiction…) (Image by Станислав Руденко from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. – Leo Tolstoy [Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy] (1828 – 1910): War and Peace / (The only true wisdom…) (Image by press 👍 and ⭐… 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: There is no such thing as free lunch. [There is no free lunch.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/rabbit-1057756_640-100x75.jpg)
