Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The more we try to wrest ourselves from our ego, the deeper we sink into it.
Emil Cioran
Death is terrible, but still more terrible is the feeling that you might live for ever and never die.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Success, which is not always a proof of merit, depends more often on the choice of a subject than on its execution.
Pierre Ambroise Franois Choderlos de Laclos
Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Leadership is mostly a power over imagination, and never more so than in combat. The bravest man alone can only be an armed lunatic. The real strength lies in the ability to get others to do your work.
Lois McMaster Bujold
1. Never give anything away for nothing. 2. Never give more than you have to (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). 3. Always take back everything if you possibly can.
William Seward Burroughs
Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
William Seward Burroughs
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.
Hugo Rafael Chvez Fras
By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
Mark Zuckerberg
More than 175 million people use Facebook. If it were a country, it would be the sixth most populated country in the world.
Mark Zuckerberg