There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent...
Quote by James Joyce about philosophy, human imperfections, being
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A smart coat is a good letter of introduction.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about intelligence, good, good luck, americansThe clown is best in his own country, and the gentleman...
Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about countryA person whose heart is not content is like a snake which...
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about people, heartThe richest man, whatever his lot, is he who is content...
Proverbs and old sayings DutchBoys seldom make passes at girls wearing glasses.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about americansEvents of the day 27 March
1309:
Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
1329:
Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1513:
Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
1625:
Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
1937:
Was born Nicolae Dumitrescu-Sinesti.
1947:
Was born Alexandru Papilian.
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I don't feel like a grandmother. I don't.
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We have to change. It's not just Calcutta that needs to...
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You never see a man walking down the street with a woman...
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket...
Quote by William E. Vaughan
Frankly, the feeling of the adult contingent in the...
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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the...
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To Err is Human; To Really Foul Things Up Requires a...
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the...
Quote by William Blake about philosophy, sleep, night
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is...
Quote by Henry Ford about succes, progress, beginning
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Quote by Samuel Beckett about advice
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Quote by Aesop about goodnes
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Thus, like the skin
of a shorn ewe, the day rises.
It is difficult to skin the self from a stone.
It is difficult to skin memory from a Greek.
But why should we talk about these!
After all,
light too has a skin,
light too can be...
Poems by Nichita Stănescu about light, self-control, hunger, memory, air, being, blood, heart, day, loveThe New Tower of Babel
English version by Gabriela Pachia
(1)...Into the Last State of the Matter...
The striated sky of my holy mushroom,
myriapoda like flashes of lightning – and the same
chromium ants
and the milk foam, among the planets,
and the white water lilies of the darkness
on the...
Poems by Ion Pachia-TatomirescuDecebal to his people
This life is a lost boon if you
Don't live it as you wanted to!
Much would a warlike, ruthless foe
Enslave us all! Our birth, we know,
Was woe enough; would you get through
Another dreadful woe?
Death, even for a godlike scion,
Is...
The Keynote
The bone is a joy only when it's the forehead bone,
when it protects, does not disjoin,
as are the alkaline vertebrae
from the difficult depths of the flesh and the wedding.
I'm resigned to losing the habit
of my manner of being,
but...
Poems by Nichita Stănescu about habits, being, body, time, marriage, hunger, solitude, death, joy, starsFolklore
Right words said by the forefathers folklore: proverbs and old sayings, traditions and superstitions, spells and incantations, traditional songs, riddles, carols.He who passes a winter's day passes one of his mortal enemies.
Proverbs and old sayings French
Without other people's companionship, even paradise would be an unlikable place.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about paradise, people
There is bound to be a knot in a very long string.
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan
The election of the abbot is not stopped for want of a monk.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
There are 3 simple rules in life:
- don't promise when you're happy,
- don't answer when you're nervous,
- don't decide when you're angry.
Proverbs and old sayings British about life
Man's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same.
Proverbs and old sayings Croatian
Who came back from the grave and told the story?
Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian
Force without forecast is to little avail.
Proverbs and old sayings
What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?
Fire.
Riddles
If the pills were pleasant, they would not want gilding.
Proverbs and old sayings American
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A priori - a posteriori
A priori - the term means before any experience, independent from any experience, from the earlier. This term is in close relationship with its opposite a posteriori , from experience, from the later. Both expressions are used in Philosophy and...
Phoenix bird
Quite often we hear around us being used the expression - "Reborn from the ashes as the Phoenix bird" and perhaps many times, we fail to make the connection between the depicted situation and expression – Phoenix bird. The word originates in the...
Bovarism
Bovarism is the term that denotes a person's state of discontent towards its own existence, constructing a fictitious personality to match his ideals. This alter ego of the person functions as a protection from too cruel world for which is not...
