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Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.
Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
Between two stools one sits on the ground.
[Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]
Between two stools one sits on the ground.
[Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]
We make our choices, then our choices make us!
We make our choices, then our choices make us!
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to read more
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to th's first.
Between the victim and the stone knife.
[Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.]
Between the victim and the stone knife.
[Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.]
If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,
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If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,
And I will look on both indifferently;
For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honor more than I fear death.
