Jucundis Quotes

#1. For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.
[Lat., Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt di,
Carior est illis homo quam sibi.]

Juvenal

#2. True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

Michel De Montaigne

#3. I love that because that's what I'm supposed to be doing - whether it's accepted b everybody or not. I'm supposed to be pushing that envelope and trying new things. And people are supposed to say, Hov, you might have went too far.

Jay-Z

#4. Primarily, that means learning to recognize thoughts as thoughts - as transient appearances in consciousness - and to no longer be distracted by them, if only for short periods of time.

Sam Harris

#5. And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

Aristotle.

#6. You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

Cameron Diaz

#7. Wow," Liv said, when I dropped the mallet back into the drawer. "That looked like fun. I call dibs on the next over-the-top destruction of evidence.

Rachel Vincent

#8. Only tears can hear the sound of pain
when warm blood reddens discolored stain

Munia Khan

#9. We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time" ...

Robert M. Pirsig

#10. Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

Lester B. Pearson

#11. Recovering alcoholic guys wake up in the morning, and they have to think of a reason to get up, and then, once they're up, to not have a drink. It's like all these little heroic battles they have that they fight with and against every day of their lives.

Liam Neeson

#12. Mir astronaut Jerry Linenger writes in his memoir that he was surprised to find a bottle of cognac in one arm of his spacesuit and a bottle of whiskey in the other. (Linenger was the Frank Burns of space exploration:

Mary Roach

#13. The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.

Baltasar Garzon

#14. If you can't talk about it, you can't change it.

Matt L. Rawlins