Favourite Quotations (Moderator: Frederique)

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Started by spiros

As a sovereign, if I have virtue, I am not afraid of being slandered by people. I’m more afraid of being praised despite the lack of it. -> Ως ηγεμόνας, αν είμαι ενάρετος, δεν με φοβίζουν οι συκοφαντίες των ανθρώπων, φοβάμαι περισσότερο τον έπαινο όταν δεν τον αξίζω.

Started by spiros

I never desert my friends in misfortune. When they are plunged in the lowest abyss of human calamity, they are sure to be visited by me.

Started by spiros

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it -> Το χτίσιμο μιας καλής φήμης απαιτεί είκοσι χρόνια, ενώ το γκρέμισμά της μόλις πέντε λεπτά

Started by spiros

Always be moving forward. Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. The moment you stop improving your organization, it starts to die. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way.

Started by spiros

Είναι πρωτοφανές, τη στιγμή που η διεθνής εκπαιδευτική αγορά αντιπροσωπεύει περί τα 30 δισεκατομμύρια δολάρια και από αυτά η χώρα σας θα μπορούσε να προσελκύσει ένα 10%, ήτοι 3 δισεκατομμύρια δολάρια τον χρόνο, να προτιμά να μην κάνει τίποτε απολύτως αλλά να προκρίνει διαπραγματεύσεις για δανεικό χρήμα.

Started by spiros

Man survives earthquakes, experiences the horrors of illness, and all of the tortures of the soul. But the most tormenting tragedy of all time is, and will be the tragedy of the bedroom.

Started by spiros

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.

Started by spiros

Ποιος είναι πραγματικά ελεύθερος άνθρωπος (Ζωή Λάσκαρη)

Started by spiros

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Started by spiros

When a woman is talking to you listen to what she says with her eyes

Started by spiros

καὶ τὸ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ὄνομα πεποίηκεν μηκέτι τοῦ γένους, ἀλλὰ τῆς διανοίας δοκεῖν εἶναι, καὶ μᾶλλον Ἕλληνας καλεῖσθαι τοὺς τῆς παιδεύσεως τῆς ἡμετέρας ἢ τοὺς τῆς κοινῆς φύσεως μετέχοντας.

Started by spiros

Un langage sonore aux douceurs souveraines, le plus beau qui soit né sur des lèvres humaines. -> Ηχηρή κατ' εξοχήν κι απαλή γλώσσα, η πιο ωραία που γεννήθηκε ποτέ σε ανθρώπινα χείλη.

Started by spiros

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Started by Apparatus

Η θυσία κάνει ένα άτομο να θεωρείται ζωντανό. Η ζωή χωρίς αυτό που αποκαλείται θυσία δεν έχει νόημα.

Started by spiros

The most profound and the only truly effective and unmistaken political activity is the profound spiritual influence that arises out of true, unmistaken meditative awareness, which is nondual, nonconceptual meditative awareness, which is primordial awareness, original wisdom, mahamudra and dzogchen

Started by spiros

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

Started by spiros

A safe cigarette is one that cannot be smoked, or one you leave unsmoked in the pack.

Started by spiros