Alexandra

Medio tutissmus ibis

Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur

Cogito Ergo Sum

veni vidi vici

veni vidi vici

happy pi day

going to visit congress tommorow

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. -Socrates

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. -Plato

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. -Aristotle

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new. -Democritus

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. -Aristotle

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others. -Democritus

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. -Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -Aristotle

Bigotry is the sacred disease.-Heraclitus

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. -Plato

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.-Aristotle

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. -Socrates

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. -Aristotle

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. -Epicurus

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. -Plutarch

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. -Plutarch

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way. -Epictetus

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. -Aristotle