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“He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.”

Firsts Might Used Three Secret Gone Sea Land One Day Thirds Repentance Trusted Three Things Cato

Book:Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes, Historical and Critical; and a Life of Plutarch

Source: Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes, Historical and Critical; and a Life of Plutarch

“Like all truly pure souls she [Chantal] quickly resigned herself to past faults, thought only of how to repair whatever harm they had done. "Of all my daughters, you are certainly the least bothered by scruples of conscience," Abbé Chevance used to say.... Even sin, once the will is detached and no longer nourishes it, withers and dies sterile. It is in the secret of intentions, like in a decomposing humus, in the dark forest of future sins, unpardoned sins, half dead, half living, that new poisons are distilled.”

Soul Done Past Used Dies Dark Sin Secret Half Pure Daughter Conscience Faults Intention Harm Forests Poison My Daughter Bothered Detached Resigned Scruples Pure Soul

Author:Georges Bernanos

“In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.”

People Done Enough Used Lying Desire Choices Left Secret Fiction Trouble Source Proud Exercise Cat Shame Silent Work Out Nine Curious Fascinated Listeners Undone Rough Times Avid Nine Lives

Author:Marge Piercy

“The dirty little secret of what used to be known as Wall Street securities firms-Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns-was that every one of them funded their business in this way to varying degress, and every one of them was always just twenty-four hours away from a funding crisis. The key to day-to-day survival was the skill with which Wall Street executives managed their firms' ongoing reputation in the marketplace.”

“Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas. Avoid all these. Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion. Is there any mystery in the Vedanta, or in the Vedas, or in the Samhitâs, or in the Puranas? What secret societies did the sages of yore establish to preach their religion? What sleight-of-hand tricks are there recorded as used by them to bring their grand truths to humanity?”

Men Want Ideas Hands Motivational Used Humanity Secret Mystery Blood Brave Tricks Muscles Iron Old Man Nerves Steel Sage Vigor Vedanta Secret Society Vedas Sleight Of Hand

Book:Lectures Vol. 3

Source: Lectures Vol. 3

“Better known as the Secret of the Golden Flower, this is a famous neidan text that the Western world came to know through Richard Wilhelm's 1929 translation. The Chinese text used by Wilhelm was edited by Zhanran Huizhen zi in 1921. Besides this, at least five more versions are available, all of which date to the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and are ascribed to Lu Dongbin, who revealed them through spirit writing.”

Knows World Writing Used Spirit Secret Known Five Flower Late Western Available Versions Golden Chinese Translations Western World Edited Dynasty

Author:Monica Esposito