Today’s One-Liner (#170)
We still protect crippled people, handicapped people, but in the center of it all we find a sort of cancer growing, which is the return to infanticide. –René Girard, Maxim #146, in All Desire Is a…
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Today’s One-Liner (#162)
The world is in danger for lack of life-giving maxims. –A.G. Sertillanges, O.P., The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods, translated by Mary Ryan
Thought of the Day
There are people who ponder about their friends’ shortcomings: there’s nothing to be gained by that. I have always been on the look-out for the merits of my opponents and this has been rewarding. –Johann…
Today’s One-Liner (#45)
Tout le monde se plaint de sa mémoire, et personne ne se plaint de son jugement. –La Rochefoucauld, Maxim #89 Everybody complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgement. #89 –Translation by…
La Rochefoucauld Nailed It
Le soleil ni la mort ne se peuvent regarder fixement. –Duc François De La RochefoucauldNeither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.–Leonard TancockMaxim #26