Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. – Socrates (469? – 399B.C.) (Image by congerdesign from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine… More »
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. – Socrates (469? – 399B.C.) / (The only true wisdom…) (Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates (469? – 399B.C.) / (I know nothing…) / (We can know only…) (Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google… More »
Envy is the ulcer of the soul. – Socrates (469? – 399B.C.) / (“ulcer” = a painful area on your skin or inside your body that may bleed or produce poisonous substances) (Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by… More »
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old. – Aristotle (384 – 322B.C.) (Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. – Aristotle (384 – 322B.C.) / (The first and best…) (Image by moritz320 from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of… More »
Anybody can become angry – that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power… More »
![IMAGE: I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. [I have forgotten the books I have read and the dinners I have eaten, but they both helped make me.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/food-6123416_640-200x133.jpg)
I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. [I have forgotten the books I have read and the dinners I have eaten, but they both helped make… More »
![IMAGE: The first and best [greatest] victory is to conquer self [yourself]; to be conquered by self [yourself] is of all things most shameful and vile.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/book-2127252_640-200x133.jpg)
The first and best [greatest] victory is to conquer self [yourself]; to be conquered by self [yourself] is of all things most shameful and vile. – Plato [Platon] (427 – 347B.C.) / (I count him braver…) (Image by moritz320 from… More »
![IMAGE: Wise men speak [talk] because they have something to say; fools (speak [talk]) because they have to say something.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/bronze-610837_640-200x133.jpg)
Wise men speak [talk] because they have something to say; fools (speak [talk]) because they have to say something. – Plato [Platon] (427 – 347B.C.) / (or, Author Unknown?) (Image by mvivirito0 from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using… More »
A red sun hath water…
常に心せよ、流れに…
シーザーの妻は疑惑を…
さよなら…寂しいよ…
Don't just dream…
![IMAGE: I never lose. I either win or learn. [Either I win or I learn.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/nelson-mandela-539834_640-100x67.jpg)
