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Quotation of the day
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
Daily Quote:
"Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile." (Baudrillard, Jean - Smile)

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
For the dead there are no more toils.
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
None loves the messenger who brings bad news.
Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
There is no success without hardship.
Success, remember is the reward of toil.
Truth is always the strongest argument.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...

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