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@Pesala said in aphorisms & quotes & statements:

Wisdom is knowing not to put them in a fruit salad.

Little does the sage who wrote it know because:
Scald the tomatoes and tangerines. Peel off the skin and cut into small pieces. Peel banana cut into smaller pieces, add wine and blend with a blender. Combine the prepared tomatoes with the tangerine and pour the made sauce. Mix everything thoroughly and season to taste. Before serving, set the finished salad in the refrigerator for 1 hour and sprinkle with the juice of a squeezed lemon.
Or Tomato and Watermelon Salad

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nuvolor

“Justice without compassion isn’t justice; it’s an abattoir.”

(Amos Oz)

iqaluit

Soap cannot wash charcoal white

nuvolor

"Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky."
(Peter Higgs)

iqaluit

Fear Nothing
Practice truth

(I saw on a t-shirt on someone today)

iqaluit

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.

People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.

The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.

~ Rumi

nuvolor

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
(Bertrand Russell)

barbudo2005

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@barbudo2005 said in aphorisms & quotes & statements:

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I said in aphorisms & quotes & statements:

Stwierdzenie:
Jeśli aforyzm, cytat lub stwierdzenie jest przedstawione za pomocą obrazka z literami, to tłumaczenie jest stratą czasu.

barbudo2005

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@barbudo2005 said in aphorisms & quotes & statements:

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Euripides? In English? Impossible.
Although, there is no consistent contempt in Euripides for the barbarians, which began to take shape among the Greeks in the fifth century BC, he wrote something that is translated into Polish as:
Przez każdy przestwór może lecieć orzeł
I każda ziemia dzielnemu ojczyzną
this, he could not have written anything in English for obvious reasons.

I have italicized quotes from „Niewolnictwo”; Iza Bieżuńska-Małowist, Marian Małowist

iqaluit

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

iqaluit

“We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.”
~ The Alchemy of Stone / Ekaterina Sedia

iqaluit

And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin.
Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, you men of little faith?- Matthew 6:28-30

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.
For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds! ... - Luke 12:22-31

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a Highlander saying by Father Jozef Tischner that „istnieją trzy rodzaje prowdy: świento prowda, tyz prowda i gówno prowda”
an article attempting to explain the meaning of these six words: https://przekroj.org/swiat-ludzie/trzy-prawdy-tischnera/

iqaluit

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
Paul Valery

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
Paul Valery

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.
Paul Valery

Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.
Paul Valery

nuvolor

"We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong."
(Richard Feynman)

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@nuvolor said in aphorisms & quotes & statements:

We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong.

It looks like an antinomy.

ingolftopf

Thank you for your beautiful aphorisms & quotes here.

@iqaluit

@nuvolor

I hope you've already created your own blog here on Vivaldi.
To avoid any misunderstandings, of course I don't mean this ironically, but seriously.

nuvolor

@ingolftopf
It is a joy and a pleasure for me,
Thanks to all those like you who work hard to make this and much more possible in the Vivaldi ecosystem.