“Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human.” HumansWarEndsActionBloodAll ThingsPerseveranceTriumphToil Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from affectation at all costs, as if it were a rough and dangerous reef, and (to use perhaps a novel word for it) to practise in all things a certain nonchalance [sprezzatura] which conceals all artistry and makes whatever one says or does seem uncontrived and effortless.” IfsHumansDoeUseSeemsActionCertainNovelDangerousCostAll ThingsUniversalRoughSteersArtistryEffortlessPractiseReefsHuman ActionsNonchalance Author:Baldassare Castiglione
“I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.” WorldHumansBodyHandsEyeBeautifulPerfectTypeHighestModelsAll ThingsEnvyGreekCrownsHuman BodyOld GreekPhidias Book:The Lands of the Saracen: Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain Source: The Lands of the Saracen: Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain
“Enlightenment means having no human mind, no limitations. Your awareness is eternity, timeless, infinite, beyond boundaries, and yet it exists within all things.” MindHumansMeanAwarenessEnlightenmentAll ThingsEternityInfiniteBoundariesLimitationHuman MindTimeless Author:Frederick Lenz