“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.”— Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means, 1937Share
“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”— Aldous HuxleyShare
“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”— Aldous HuxleyShare
“What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.”— Aldous HuxleyShare
“It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?”— EpictetusShare
“In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.”— EpictetusShare
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.”— William ShakespeareShare
“That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.”— Marcus AureliusShare
“Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.”— Marcus AureliusShare
