Megara Quotes

#1. One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.

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#2. The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.

Colin Wilson

#3. Boy, you're like a horse.
Just now sated with seed,
You've come back to my stable,
Yearning for a good rider, fine meadow,
An icy spring, shady groves.

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#4. The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

Dalton Trumbo

#5. Fairly examined, truly understood,
No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.

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#6. To some of us the humiliation of failure seems to open a wide gulf between God and us. We imagine that God turns away from us in disgust. What I discovered was that failure could be a bridge across the chasm that pride had created.

James Martin

#7. Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.

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#8. The aim of all spiritual practice is love.

Sathya Sai Baba

#9. The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

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#10. Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.

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#11. I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia - by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best.
(tr Jowett)

Plato

#12. If you practice hard, you can win every battle.

Manny Pacquiao

#13. No one will ever make necessity not happen.

Anne Carson

#14. If you've wrecked one train, you've wrecked them all.

Charles Addams

#15. Too many tongues have gates which fly apart
Too easily, and care for many things
That don't concern them.

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