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John Florio quotes

John Florio quotes, proverbs and aphorisms. If this done it may please you, as I wish it may, and I hope it shall, I with you shall be pleased. Though not, yet …

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud

Some people are right, you don't need to be educated to vegetate. Carl William Brown

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi

Quotes and aphorisms on love

Italy in brief

Short dictionary of literary terms

Aforismi volume quarto

Best quotes on books

Daimonology-synthetic-principles

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
Stephen Hawking

The World of English, its language, its culture, its varieties, its future, and its infinite possibilities of communication in our small unique world.
Carl William Brown

The literary avenger. Surrealist, humorous, nihilistic, humanistic and romantic character. In tristitia hilaris, in hilaritate tristis.
Carl William Brown

As far as the development of human happiness is concerned I would say that egoism is the higher form of stupid ignorance that prevents it.
Carl William Brown