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posted by Staff, on 15 october 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)

It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.

J.R.R. Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien)

posted by Staff, on 14 october 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)

All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

posted by Staff, on 14 october 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Society)

The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

posted by Staff, on 13 october 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Science and technologies)

Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

Isaac Newton

posted by Staff, on 13 october 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

Charles De Gaulle

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