Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise
our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows,
pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad
or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by
day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties,
absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit...
-- Hippocrates (460?-377? B.C.), The Sacred Disease
our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows,
pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad
or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by
day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties,
absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit...
-- Hippocrates (460?-377? B.C.), The Sacred Disease
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pleasures,
joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains... - Yet man dies not while the world, at once his mother and his monument,
remains. His name is forgotten, indeed, but the breath... - Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us,
even in our pains. --... - In my view, God educates us through our deceptions and mistakes,
in order to make us understand at last that we ought... - Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think,
and thinking where we ought to feel." -- John Churton... - it is not through sin that he opposes God. The Devil's strategy for our
times is to make trivial human existence and to isolate us from one another
while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures,
work demands, or economic anxieties. -- C. S.... - The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny
only serve to lead us into it... - That which is used develops.
That which is not used wastes away.
Hippocrates (460?-377? B.C... - Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger,
even though it is hard to realize this. For the world...
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--
Murphy's laws on... - Where a mind is closed,
truth cannot enter... - SMILEY
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