💬 Quotes

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"All things change; nothing dies. The spirit wanders, arriving here or there, and taking possession of whatever limbs it pleases, passing from beasts into human bodies, and from our bodies into beasts, but never perishing."
— The Metamorphosesby Ovid
"My mind is set to tell of bodies changed into new forms. You, Gods, since you are the ones who made these arts, inspire my undertaking, and lead my song in one unbroken thread from the very origin of the world down to my own time."
— The Metamorphosesby Ovid
"I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse."
— The Metamorphosesby Ovid
"Happy is he who commands his own life and can say: 'Today I have lived; tomorrow, let the Father spread his canopy over the sky with black clouds or with clear sunshine.'"
— The Metamorphosesby Ovid
"Love cannot be cured by herbs."
— The Metamorphosesby Ovid
"Time, the devourer of all things, and you, envious age, together destroy all things that exist, and little by little consume them in a slow death."
— The Metamorphosesby Ovid
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
— The Effective Executiveby Peter F. Drucker
"Effectiveness can be learned—and it also has to be learned."
— The Effective Executiveby Peter F. Drucker
"The effective executive focuses on contribution. He looks up from his work and outward toward results rather than inward toward his work and his skills."
— The Effective Executiveby Peter F. Drucker
"To be effective focuses on the opportunities, not on the problems. Feeding opportunities starves the problems."
— The Effective Executiveby Peter F. Drucker
"Decision-making is only a-means-to-an-end. It is a means rather than an end in itself. It is a judgment among alternatives. It is rarely a choice between right and wrong."
— The Effective Executiveby Peter F. Drucker
"The effective executive makes strengths productive. He knows that one cannot build on weakness."
— The Effective Executiveby Peter F. Drucker
"Je n'enseigne point, je raconte."
— Los ensayosby Montaigne, Michel de
"Que sais-je ?"
— Los ensayosby Montaigne, Michel de
"Chaque homme porte la forme entière de l'humaine condition."
— Los ensayosby Montaigne, Michel de
"Philosopher, c'est apprendre à mourir."
— Los ensayosby Montaigne, Michel de
"Le plus grand inconvenient de nostre estat, c'est que la mort est couppable de la vie."
— Los ensayosby Montaigne, Michel de
"Il n'y a point de description pareille en difficulté, comme la description de soy-mesme."
— Los ensayosby Montaigne, Michel de
"For the first time in his life, Flush had met a master who would not be pleased with dead partridges."
— Flushby Virginia Woolf
"A new language, a vast language of smells, was suddenly opened to him."
— Flushby Virginia Woolf