#vic

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds. ↗

— Mary Astell

#half #minds #much #own #reflection

I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life. ↗

— John Astin

#continue #demonstrates #difficult #difficult things #doing

This above all, to refuse to be a victim. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#refuse #victim

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#despotic #law #morals #relaxed #versa

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#behalf #crime #demand #direct #forgiveness

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#desires #flesh #hard #impressions #make

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#organization #secret #victory

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#ask #dads #different #fathers #i

I'm not going to give President Bush any advice. He knows. He knows what I think. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#any #bush #give #going #i

The worst men often give the best advice. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#advice #give #men #often #worst