418 Quotes About Classics

I suppose I thought your mind would be full of dresses and dances.""Well, it's not. It's full of Socrates and Euclid.

وقد كانت الصدفة، حين استيقظتْ على ذكرى كتابٍ قرأتْه في السنوات الأولى، لكنها لم تفهمْ ما به من كلام؛ إذ أنه كتابٌ قديمٌ كُتِبَ بطريقة قديمة. ذلك الكتاب كان يعرض قصة الحب بين رجل وخادمة يُطلق عليها (ميرداث). وهكذا، لأنها كانت على وعيٍ شاملٍ ومعرفةٍ بتلك العصور المعروفة بـ عصور الصمت، فقد قرأتْ ذلك الكتاب مرات عديدة، فازداد رونقُ القصةِ جمالًا بسبب ما فيه من حب عميق.

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.

May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.

I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.