Life and Existence

I know death hath ten thousand several doors

I am not I: thou art not he or she: they are not they.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the colour purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

This is no time for making new enemies.

Quoi que vous fassiez, écrasez l’infâme, et aimez qui vous aime.

Si Dieu n’existait pas, il faudrait l’inventer.

Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.

Il faut cultiver notre jardin.

Sed fugit interea, fugit inreparabile tempus.

Ultima Cumaei venit iam carminis aetas;

Ultima Cumaei venit iam carminis aetas;

Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra.

Geniumque loci primamque deorum Tellurem Nymphasque et adhuc ignota precatur Flumina.

Spiritus intus alit, totamque infusa per artus

Stabant orantes primi transmittere cursum

Facilis descensus Averno:

Hos successus alit: possunt, quia posse videntur. These success encourages: they can because they think they can.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.

Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit Litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto Vi superum, saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we’re all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

La vida es duda,

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four.