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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Posted on October 22, 2011 by

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A great fortune is a great slavery. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A great mind becomes a great fortune. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

All art is but imitation of nature. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

All cruelty springs from weakness. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Posted on September 29, 2011 by

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Boredom: the desire for desires. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Graphic Design Quotes

Posted on December 1, 2009 by

– “Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.” – Charles Eames

– “Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.” – Brian Reed

– “There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.” – Massimo Vignelli

– “People ignore design that ignores people.” – Frank Chimero

– “I’ve always held to the belief that the practice of creating compelling graphic design occurs not by employing the principals of a democracy, but rather, that of a monarchy.” – Thomas Vasquez

– “Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.” – Joe Sparano

– “Every designers’ dirty little secret is that they copy other designers’ work. They see work they like, and they imitate it. Rather cheekily, they call this inspiration.” – Aaron Russell

– “The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.” – Marty Neumeier

– “Visual design is often the polar opposite of engineering: trading hard edges for subjective decisions based on gut feelings and personal experiences. It’s messy, unpredictable, and notoriously hard to measure. The apparently erratic behavior of artists drives engineers bananas. Their decisions seem arbitrary and risk everything with no guaranteed benefit.” – Scott Stevenson

– “Design is where science and art break even.” – Robin Mathew

– “Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere.” – Mieke Gerritzen

– “A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.” – Bruno Munari

Best Quotes about music

Posted on October 13, 2009 by

– “If music be the food of love, play on; /Give me excess of it that, surfeiting, / The appetite may sicken and so die.” – Shakespeare

– “There is only one better thing than music – live music.” – Jacek Bukowski

– “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” – Aldous Huxley

– “Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.” – George Bernard Shaw

– “I hate music, especially when it’s played.” – Jimmy Durante

– “I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.” – George Eliot

– “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” – Victor Hugo

– “Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.” – Martin Luther

– “Music is what I love and it’s what I feel and it’s in me and to know that I can do something that I enjoy and hopefully bring some enjoyment to other people through is an incredible felling and I am just really thankful for it.” – Mariah Carey

– “Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.” – Oscar Wilde

– “There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.” – George Eliot

– “The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, «Is there a meaning to music?» My answer would be, «Yes.» And «Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?» My answer to that would be, «No.»” – Aaron Copland