Quotes

[RFNAPLES]

Quotes:

"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill."
"Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat."
"Being right too soon is socially unacceptable."
"By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity."
"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done."
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
"No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority."
"They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday."
"Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again."
"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."

- Robert A. Heinlein
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[Elston]

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love."
"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. "
"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. "
"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. "
"Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't. "
"Art raises its head where creeds relax. "
"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. "
"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect. "
"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."

- Friedrich W. Nietzsche

[Elston]

"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
"Faith: not wanting to know what is true. "
"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons."
"He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted."
"Idleness is the parent of psychology."
"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."
"Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?"
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
"It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters."

[Charicature]

"Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices."
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[Norman Bates]

"Everybody's clever nowadays"

[Charicature]

"My Mama always said, 'Stupid is as stupid does.'"
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[Charicature]

"Don't tune up too much, you'll destroy our indie cred." - Grant Lee Phillips to Phillip Price of Winterpills 11/15/09. Phillips (the main act) was on stage adding his guitar to the last three songs of their warm-up set, and the band kept finding instruments out of tune after each song. A discussion on plans to cash in their indie cred for an American Express card ensued.
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[RFNAPLES]

"A bad peace is even worse than war."
"A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man."
"A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all."
"All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end."
"Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin."
"Custom adapts itself to expediency."
"Greater things are believed of those who are absent."
"He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again."
"It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."
"Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable."

- Tacitus
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[Norman Bates]

[RFNAPLES]

No, he spoke and wrote in Latin. You can consult his original Latin works:
• De vita Iulii Agricolae
• De origine et situ Germanorum
• Dialogus de oratoribus
• Historiae
• Ab excessu divi Augusti
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