To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.
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A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.
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Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...
A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~
Sapiens means wise or sapient... Wise means acceptance, not differentiation. Wise means helping, not fighting. Wise means assimilation, not destruction. Wise means harmony and peace, not dissension.
Together you are a species that grows in all aspects of life _ separated you are a mere speck of dust in vast ocean of space-time capable of nothing progressive.