What's your favorite quote and from whom is it ?
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>Watch the backblast you idiot
- Tsun Zu, Art of War
"O Lord, Thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget Thee, do not forget me."-Jacob Astley.
Royalist infantry commander in the English civil war. Lost it in the end, still a good quote though
"> > >" -Voltaire
"There is no one right way to live."
- Daniel Quinn
"Stand out of my sunlight" - Diogenes
Fitted out appropriately, I step inside the venerable courts of the ancients, where, solicitously received by them, I nourish myself on that food that alone is mine and for which I was born; where I am unashamed to converse with them... And for four hours at a time I feel no boredom, I forget all my troubles, I do not dread poverty, and I am not terrified by death. I absorb myself into them completely.
Machiavelli, 1513
>>998519
Did they have go carts back then?
>>1000559
he wants the vitamin D
This guy is a goldmine
They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards
-Creigton Abrams
I can't believe I ate the whole thing
-Idi Amin
>>1000912
Diogenes is, of course, a fucking legend. But when he told Alexander of Macedonia to get out of his sunlight, he set a new standard for badassery.
>>1002125
>Plato was discoursing on his theory of ideas and, pointing to the cups on the table before him, said while there are many cups in the world, there is only one `idea’ of a cup, and this cupness precedes the existence of all particular cups. “I can see the cups on the table,” said Diogenes, “but I can’t see the `cupness'”. “That’s because you have the eyes to see the cup,” said Plato, “but”, tapping his head with his forefinger, “you don’t have the intellect with which to comprehend `cupness’.” Diogenes walked up to the table, examined a cup and, looking inside, asked, “Is it empty?” Plato nodded. “Where is the `emptiness’ which precedes this empty cup?” asked Diogenes. Plato allowed himself a few moments to collect his thoughts, but Diogenes reached over and, tapping Plato’s head with his finger, said “I think you will find here is the `emptiness’.
THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN
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>>998653
I prefer rick
>>998508
“Flectere si nequeo superos Acheronta movebo"
"If I cannot move the heavens, I will raise hell."
~Virgil, The Aeneid
"This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." -Voltaire
"Fuck"
Evey soldier ever
"Hey guys, watch me rip this tree in two."
-Milo of Croton
>>1002645
"Pssh, nothing personnel puer"
>>998519
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>Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.
