“Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.” MenShouldWellsMaySourceGainsIllRuins Book:The Tragedies (Annotated Edition) Source: The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)
“Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Ionia.” ThinkingMenMayLittlesHas BeensPhilosophyPastForceGrowsVirtueMy FriendsGainsDignityBraverySensesRuinsAssociationIndifferentMarathonPietyEnviedFrigid Author:Samuel Johnson
“I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.” MeanSoulSelfReasonFallEvilObjectsGainsDestructionShameSakeSeekingRuinsFallenMotiveNo ReasonWickednessFoulShamefulSelf DestructionDepravedFirmament Book:The Confessions Source: The Confessions
“Most people are just fat and because most bodybuilders juice, they can get away with eating what they want and just monitoring calories. It's a horrible misconception and often sends people down a path of fat gain that might ruin their motivation and drive. Fat cells never go away once created.” PeopleWantMightMotivationPathEatingGainsHorribleFatsRuinsCellsGet AwayGoing AwayJuiceMisconceptionCaloriesMonitoringBodybuilderMotivation And Drive Author:Scott Herman
“A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.” PeopleDoeWarPoliticsSocialEasyPayMilitarySourceDemandGainsTerrorRuinsReformExcellentDiscussionPatrioticPerpetualEquipmentInvasionMenaceSocial ReformExpendituresArmamentFinanciersSyndicateMilitary Equipment Author:Anatole France
“When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.” StatesHandsAgeWinningLosesLossRichTaughtProudCostOceanEternalGainsAdvantageSlaveStoresRageHungryKingdomsRuinsMortalsFirmSoilShoreBuriedDecayTowersLoftyBrassInterchange Book:Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Problems Solved Source: Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Problems Solved