Quotes of the Day. September 21, 2009.
Inspired by the previous passage from “Chapaev and Pustota” by Victor Pelevin
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Law is mind without reason.
Aristotle (Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)
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