Why is it that our memory is good enough…

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person

Quote, saying and phrase by: Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to real…

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Johann von Goethe

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to real…

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whoever sets himself to see things as th…

Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Matthew Arnold