Yes. He said after he shot Lincoln. It was originally attributed to Brutus as he stabbed Ceasar. It means 'Thus always to tyrants'.
C'est la vie - That's Life.
Keeping w/the 20 or less thing, with a little editing it's not bad in parts:
Absorb the useful
Discared the useless
Apply what is yours
"You can tell more about a person by playing a sport with them for 10 minutes, then talking for 10 hours."
DannyBoy
Diamond Member
Originally posted by: b0mbrman
What would that be in Latin?
Fappito, ergo sum?
...I do this all the time":thumbsup:
datalink7
Lifer
- Jan 23, 2001
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Here are a few:
-----
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapor, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him, the universe knows nothing of this.
All our dignity then, consists in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill. Let us endavour then, to think well; this is the principle of morality." ?Blaise Pascal
-----
"Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return."
Colin Powell, when asked by Archbishop of Canterbury if the war with Iraq was about "empire building."
-----
"I tried to find him on the Christian Cross, but He was not there;
I went to the Temple of the Hindus and to the old pagodas,
but I could not find a trace of Him anywhere.
I searched on the mountains and in the valleys
but neither in the heights nor in the depths was I able to find Him.
I went to the Caaba in Mecca, but He was not there either.
I questioned the scholars and philosophers, but He was beyond their understanding.
I then looked into my heart and it was there where He dwelled that I saw Him;
He was nowhere else to be found." Jelaluddin Rumi
-----
"I would love to believe that when I die
I will live again, that some thinking,
feeling, remembering part of me will continue.
But as much as I want to believe that and despite the
ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that
assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest
that it is more than wishful thinking." -- Carl Sagan
-----
People will then often say ?But surely it?s better to remain an Agnostic just in case?? This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I?ve been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would chose not to worship him anyway.)?Douglas Adams
-----
The greatest hazard of all, losing one?s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.
Kierkegaard
"Dreams are real while they last, can we say more of life?" -- Havelock Ellis
-----
"Once Chuang Tzu dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Chuang Tzu. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Chuang Tzu. But he didn't know if he was Chuang Tzu who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Tzu. Between Chuang Tzu and a butterfly there must be some distinction! This is called the Transformation of Things." -- Chuang Chou
---
All this time we got the fable of Sleeping Beauty all wrong.
The prince didn't kiss her to wake her up. No one who's slept for a hundred years is likely to wake up.
It was the other way around. He kisses her to wake himself up from the nightmare that has brought him there.
-Max Payne
-----
?Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Yes? No? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. The temporary abstracts of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself; although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist??
?Because I choose to?
The Matrix: Revolutions
-----
?Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me,
give me Liberty or give me Death!?
Patrick Henry
To the Virginia Assembly, March 23, 1775
-----
"The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. So too with the minds who are prevented from changing their views; they cease to be minds."
-Nietzsche
-----
?And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites?polar opposites?so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.
It was this misinterpretation that caused Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the will to power, to reject the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to reject the Nietzchean philosophy of the will to power in the name of the Christian ideal of love. Now, we?ve go to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. And this is what we must see as we move on.?
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
-----
Voltaire, on his death bed is asked by a priest to renounce Satan. Voltaire responded with:
"Now, my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
----
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." Ayn Rand
----
It's that dawning moment of comprehension that I live for.
-- Calvin
----
Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. - Gandalf
---
"Hallo, Rabbit," he said, "is that you?"
"Let's pretend it isn't," said Rabbit, "and see what happens."
---
"....when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you think of things, you find sometimes that a thing which seemed very thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it." -Pooh
---
"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has a Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why
he never understands anything.
----
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
----
"We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare
and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all.
It's the best deal man has ever made"
- M. Facklam
----
?Conservative. A Statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.? ?Ambrose Bierce (1891)
----
Millions cried
Millions died
and still the sun rose
----
"If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?"
----
##The Theory of Everything
#PROJECT18
The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the
cradle forever.
^
^ -- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky,
^ The Father of Rocketry, Datalinks
----
##Advanced Spaceflight
#TECH66
And so we return again to the holy void. Some say this is simply our
destiny, but I would have you remember always that the void EXISTS,
just as surely as you or I. Is nothingness any less a miracle than
substance?
^
^ -- Sister Miriam Godwinson,
^ "We Must Dissent"
----
##Environmental Economics
#TECH59
^ We sit together,
^ the mountain and I,
^ until only the mountain remains
^
^ -- Li Po,
^ From the Yang Collection
----
#TECH32
If our society seems more nihilistic than that of previous eras, perhaps
this is simply a sign of our maturity as a sentient species. As our
collective consciousness expands beyond a crucial point, we are
at last ready to accept life's fundamental truth: that life's only
purpose is life itself.
^
^ -- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang,
^ "Looking God in the Eye"
----
##Controlled Singularity
#TECH27
Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled
with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum:
why would a perfect God create a universe at all?
^
^ -- Sister Miriam Godwinson,
^ "But for the Grace of God"
----
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won.
There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end
they always fall. Think of it... always."
-Mahatma Gandhi
----
##Habitation Dome
#FAC25
^ I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld.
^ When I die, they will put my body in a box and
^ dispose of it in the cold ground.
^ And in all the million ages to come, I will never
^ breathe or laugh or twitch again.
^ So won't you run and play with me here among the
^ teeming mass of humanity?
^ The universe has spared us this moment.
^
^ -- Anonymous, Datalinks
----
-"In individuals stupidity is rare, but in large groups it is rule" - Nietzsche
----
-----
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapor, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him, the universe knows nothing of this.
All our dignity then, consists in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill. Let us endavour then, to think well; this is the principle of morality." ?Blaise Pascal
-----
"Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return."
Colin Powell, when asked by Archbishop of Canterbury if the war with Iraq was about "empire building."
-----
"I tried to find him on the Christian Cross, but He was not there;
I went to the Temple of the Hindus and to the old pagodas,
but I could not find a trace of Him anywhere.
I searched on the mountains and in the valleys
but neither in the heights nor in the depths was I able to find Him.
I went to the Caaba in Mecca, but He was not there either.
I questioned the scholars and philosophers, but He was beyond their understanding.
I then looked into my heart and it was there where He dwelled that I saw Him;
He was nowhere else to be found." Jelaluddin Rumi
-----
"I would love to believe that when I die
I will live again, that some thinking,
feeling, remembering part of me will continue.
But as much as I want to believe that and despite the
ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that
assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest
that it is more than wishful thinking." -- Carl Sagan
-----
People will then often say ?But surely it?s better to remain an Agnostic just in case?? This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I?ve been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would chose not to worship him anyway.)?Douglas Adams
-----
The greatest hazard of all, losing one?s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.
Kierkegaard
"Dreams are real while they last, can we say more of life?" -- Havelock Ellis
-----
"Once Chuang Tzu dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Chuang Tzu. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Chuang Tzu. But he didn't know if he was Chuang Tzu who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Tzu. Between Chuang Tzu and a butterfly there must be some distinction! This is called the Transformation of Things." -- Chuang Chou
---
All this time we got the fable of Sleeping Beauty all wrong.
The prince didn't kiss her to wake her up. No one who's slept for a hundred years is likely to wake up.
It was the other way around. He kisses her to wake himself up from the nightmare that has brought him there.
-Max Payne
-----
?Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Yes? No? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. The temporary abstracts of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself; although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist??
?Because I choose to?
The Matrix: Revolutions
-----
?Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me,
give me Liberty or give me Death!?
Patrick Henry
To the Virginia Assembly, March 23, 1775
-----
"The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. So too with the minds who are prevented from changing their views; they cease to be minds."
-Nietzsche
-----
?And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites?polar opposites?so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.
It was this misinterpretation that caused Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the will to power, to reject the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to reject the Nietzchean philosophy of the will to power in the name of the Christian ideal of love. Now, we?ve go to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. And this is what we must see as we move on.?
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
-----
Voltaire, on his death bed is asked by a priest to renounce Satan. Voltaire responded with:
"Now, my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
----
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." Ayn Rand
----
It's that dawning moment of comprehension that I live for.
-- Calvin
----
Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. - Gandalf
---
"Hallo, Rabbit," he said, "is that you?"
"Let's pretend it isn't," said Rabbit, "and see what happens."
---
"....when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you think of things, you find sometimes that a thing which seemed very thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it." -Pooh
---
"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has a Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why
he never understands anything.
----
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
----
"We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare
and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all.
It's the best deal man has ever made"
- M. Facklam
----
?Conservative. A Statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.? ?Ambrose Bierce (1891)
----
Millions cried
Millions died
and still the sun rose
----
"If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?"
----
##The Theory of Everything
#PROJECT18
The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the
cradle forever.
^
^ -- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky,
^ The Father of Rocketry, Datalinks
----
##Advanced Spaceflight
#TECH66
And so we return again to the holy void. Some say this is simply our
destiny, but I would have you remember always that the void EXISTS,
just as surely as you or I. Is nothingness any less a miracle than
substance?
^
^ -- Sister Miriam Godwinson,
^ "We Must Dissent"
----
##Environmental Economics
#TECH59
^ We sit together,
^ the mountain and I,
^ until only the mountain remains
^
^ -- Li Po,
^ From the Yang Collection
----
#TECH32
If our society seems more nihilistic than that of previous eras, perhaps
this is simply a sign of our maturity as a sentient species. As our
collective consciousness expands beyond a crucial point, we are
at last ready to accept life's fundamental truth: that life's only
purpose is life itself.
^
^ -- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang,
^ "Looking God in the Eye"
----
##Controlled Singularity
#TECH27
Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled
with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum:
why would a perfect God create a universe at all?
^
^ -- Sister Miriam Godwinson,
^ "But for the Grace of God"
----
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won.
There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end
they always fall. Think of it... always."
-Mahatma Gandhi
----
##Habitation Dome
#FAC25
^ I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld.
^ When I die, they will put my body in a box and
^ dispose of it in the cold ground.
^ And in all the million ages to come, I will never
^ breathe or laugh or twitch again.
^ So won't you run and play with me here among the
^ teeming mass of humanity?
^ The universe has spared us this moment.
^
^ -- Anonymous, Datalinks
----
-"In individuals stupidity is rare, but in large groups it is rule" - Nietzsche
----
My dick has needs
-- Huxley
I drank what?
-- Socrates
That's about it, really. Why couldn't you have made it something like 50? I have PLENTY that'd fit.
-- Huxley
I drank what?
-- Socrates
That's about it, really. Why couldn't you have made it something like 50? I have PLENTY that'd fit.
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