Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)
August 31, 2008 
” Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. – Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)
Sarah Margaret Fuller, author (1810-1850)
August 31, 2008 
” A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. – Sarah Margaret Fuller, author (1810-1850)
John Keats, poet (1795-1821)
August 31, 2008 
” Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. ” – John Keats, poet (1795-1821)
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS, PHILOSOPHER AND WRITER (121-180)
“A Persons Aspirations–A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.” – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.” – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.” – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
“Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.” – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
” Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. – Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and writer (121-180)
Otto von Bismarck
” Fools you are… who say you like to learn from your mistakes… I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others and avoid the cost of my own. – Otto von Bismarck
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true.” – James Branch Cabell
QUOTES FROM VARIOUS RELIGIONS
“If you leave the Christian Bible outside, eventually the wind and the rain will destroy it. My bible IS the wind and the rain.” – This quote is attributed to an unnamed Native American woman
Jorge Luis Borges
“Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses, and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.” - Jorge Luis Borges
