Common sense isn't.
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| How can I, who drink ... bitter beer every day of my life, coolly stand up and advise hard-working fellow-creatures to take the pledge? |
| ~W. E. Gladstone (1809-1898) ~ |
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| There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest - whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories - comes afterwards. |
| ~ The Myth of Sisyphus, An Absurd Reasoning, Absurdity and Suicide, Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) ~ |
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| Friendship is Love without his wings. |
| ~ Lord Byron, L'Amitié est l'Amour sans Ailes. ~ |
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| The dice of Zeus fall ever luckily. |
| ~ Sophocles, Phædra. Frag. 809. ~ |
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| The best of prophets of the future is the past. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Letter, Jan. 28, 1821. ~ |
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| Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which I am about to conduct, let him not refuse his services to the state, but come with me into Macedonia. I will furnish him with his sea-passage, with a horse, a tent, and even travel-funds. If anyone is reluctant to do this and prefers the leisure of the city to the hardships of campaigning, let him not steer the ship from on shore. |
| ~ LIVY, book 44, chapter 22.—Livy, trans. Alfred C. Schlesinger, vol. 13, p. 161 (1951). Lucius Aemilius Paulus is addressing the people at a public meeting. President Franklin Roosevelt attacked armchair generals by citing this and preceding passages at his press conference, March 17, 1942: “Being of an historical turn of mind, [I figured] that probably some poor devil had gone through this process of annoyance in past years, some previous time in history, so I went quite far back and I found [Lucius Aemilius] … it sounds as if it were written in 1942.”—The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1942, p. 166 (1950). ~ |
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| After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. viii. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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