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posted by Staff, on 8 december 2025 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Abuse, Fear & Courage)

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

posted by Staff, on 7 december 2025 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Music)

The passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

posted by Staff, on 7 december 2025 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)

When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

posted by Staff, on 6 december 2025 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)

The mock authoritative manner of the one, and the insipid mirth of the other.

Jonathan Swift

posted by Staff, on 6 december 2025 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Dream, Life, Moods)

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought, a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities.

Mark Twain

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