Marcus Tullius Cicerowas born in January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC. He is a very well renown Author and thinker, and was a Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and philosopher. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists.
Cicero is mostly seen as one of the greatest minds [...]
“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”
Oscar Wilde at his best with, “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
“It is better to [...]
A Brief introduction from Wikipedia,
John Keats was one of the most popular English poets of the English Romantic movement. Elaborate word choice and sensual imagery characterize Keats’s poetry, including a series of odes that were his masterpieces and which remain among the most popular poems in English literature.
John Keats was born in 1795 at 85 [...]
From the wikipedia, Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of Remembrance of Things Past (in French À la recherche du temps perdu, literally In Search of Lost Time), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven parts from 1913 to 1927. [...]
William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth’s masterpiece is generally considered to be The Prelude, an autobiographical poem of his early years that was revised and [...]
Plato Quotes and Sayings is a collection of quotes and sayings by Plato, the Greek Philosopher whose thinkings had believed to have led the foundation of modern western civilisation:
What we think today, was long said by Plato and the likes of Aristotle and Socrates. Here are a few Quotes.
“Wise men speak because they have something [...]
Some Kahlil Gibran Quotes for you.
Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese American artist, poet and writer. He was born in Lebanon and later migrated to the United States. According to wikipedia, He is the third bestselling poet in history after Shakespeare and Lao Tse.
He came from a very poor family and, Gibran did not receive any [...]
Do you remember those Aesop’s fables we so lovingly read as kids. And those moral lessons in the forms of Sayings and Proverbs.
I have compiled a list of some of the quotes from Aesop’s which are my favorites as well.
“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or [...]