Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.  - The Teaching for Merikare c. 2135 – 2040 B.C ;  Par. 24

A mans past is not simply dead history.... it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavours and the tinglings of merited shame - George Elliot

I've lived to bury my desires,

For the one thing I greatly fear has come upon me. And what I dreaded has happened to me, I am not at ease nor am I quiet; I have no rest, for trouble comes...  - The Book of Job; 3:25-26

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again. - William Cullen Bryant 1794 – 1878 ;  The Battlefield [1839], st. 9

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882 Essays: First Series [1841], Self-Reliance

It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think. - Democracy [1861]

People should be beautiful in every way — in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves. - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1860 – 1904 ; Uncle Vanya [1897], act I

And there will be such intense darkness that one can feel it... - The Book of Exodus; 10:21

Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - John Galsworthy 1867 – 1933 ; Justice [1910], act II

O Lord, if there is a Lord; Save my soul, if I have a soul - Ernest Renan

Man is the cruelest animal - Nietzsche

[Sex:] The most fun I've ever had without laughing. - WoodyAllen; Annie Hall (screenplay) [1977]

Il faut avoir du talent pour être vieux sans être adult. translated:
 You need to have talent to be old without being an adult - from a song by  Jacques Brel, (sent by Bart Vandemoortele)

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a Zealous one asking what you can do for your country? - -Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931 [The New Frontier](Sent by Kelly)

The highest form of wisdom is kindness - -The Talmud (Sent by Bonnie B.)

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks. - Simonides c. 556 – 468 B.C., From PLUTARCH, De Gloria Atheniensium, III, 346

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.- Frank Herbert (sent by John Blau)

"God is as real as I am," the old man replied. My faith was restored, for I knew Santa would never lie. - An attatchment on my friend Anthony's e-mail; I thought it was pretty funny

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. - Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] 1694 – 1778; . Dictionnaire Philosophique [1764], Liberty of the Press

If at first you don't succeed, give up, no use being a damn fool.

• If at first you don't succeed you're running about average.

• If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried

• If at first you DO succeed, try not to look astonished! - (sent by Magnus Lindgren)

I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. -Ashleigh Brilliant

A stranger is just a friend you haven't met. -Blanca Salas

I think that if the devil doesn't exist and is therefore man's creation, man has made him in his own image.. -Ivan Karamazov; The Brothers Karamazov [1879-80], Novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Sent by Gilberto Sanchez.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. - Walter Bagehot 1826 – 1877; Physics and Politics [1869], ch. 5

Is man only a blunder of god or god only a blunder of man? - Friedrich Neitzsche

The life which is unexamined is not worth living - Plato c. 428 – 348 B.C.; Dialogues, Apology, sec. 38

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot. - Sun Tzu

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. - Eden Phillpotts

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. - Woody Allen 1935 – ;Without Feathers [1975], Death (A Play)