“Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
VII, 21
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
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Original: È importante avere sempre rispetto, in un mondo che purtroppo ha dimenticato come farlo.
“Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
VII, 21
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)
1836
Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)
“Symbols have the unfortunate power to acquire the importance of what they symbolise.”
A. C. Grayling (1949) English philosopher
Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 4, “Symbols” (p. 19)
“Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.”
Benoît Mandelbrot (1924–2010) Polish-born, French and American mathematician
Source: The (Mis)Behavior of Markets (2004, 2008), Ch. 2, p. 41
“Natural Movement is the universal workout the world has forgotten.”
Erwan Le Corre (1971)
Source: The Practice of Natural Movement: Reclaim Power, Health, and Freedom (2019), p. 27
“You can always win points; winning people’s respect is a lot more important.”
John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower
Source: The Outcasts
“I have great respect for women. Nobody has more respect for women than I do.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, October, Second presidential debate (October 9, 2016)
Hosea Ballou (1771–1852) American Universalist minister (1771–1852)
Reported in Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou (1854) p. 261.