I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
(Job.)
Daily quote: Homer, «Welcome…»
Welcome the coming,
speed the parting guest.
(Homer: Odyssey.)
Victor Hugo, «To love…»
To love is to act.
(Victor Hugo: Last words in his diary.)
Victor Hugo, «One resists…»
One resists the invasion of armies;
one can’t resist the invasion of ideas.
(Victor Hugo: The history of a crime.)
Dostojevsky, «Money…»
Money is coined liberty.
(Dostojevsky: The house of the dead.)
Dostojevsky, «The degree of civilization…»
The degree of civilization in a society
can be judged by entering its prisons.
(Dostoyevsky: The house of the dead.)
Homer, «Clearly doing good…»
Clearly doing good
puts doing bad to shame.
(Homer: Odyssey.)
Homer, «Welcome…»
Welcome the coming,
speed the parting guest.
(Homer: Odyssey.)
Homer, «Each man…»
Each man delights in the work
that suits him best.
(Homer: Odyssey.)
Homer, «If only strife…»
If only strife could die
from the lives of gods and men…
(Homer: Iliad.)