Hope is a waking dream.
(Aristotle – from Diogenes Laertius’ Lives.)
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Hope is a waking dream.
(Aristotle – from Diogenes Laertius’ Lives.)
To great evils we submit;
we resent little provocations.
(Hazlitt: On Great and Little Things.)
It would not be better
if things happened to men
just as they wish.
(Heraclitus.)
Don’t despair,
not even over the fact
that you don’t despair.
(Franz Kafka: Diary.)
Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.
(Publilius Syrus: Sententiae.)
Life is a great bundle of little things.
(O. W. Holmes: The Professor at the Breakfast Table.)
A hen is only an egg’s way
of making another egg.
(Samuel Butler (II): Life and habit.)
All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle.
(Emerson.)
A perfectly healthy sentence
is extremely rare.
(Thoreau.)
Maximiste, pessimiste.
(Joseph Roux: Meditations of a parish priest.)