Posts from Wise words!

Freedom is responsibility. That's why everyone is so afraid of it.

When a man wants to kill a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to kill him, the man calls it savagery. The difference between crime and justice is no greater.

No man can be a narrow specialist without being an idiot in the broad sense of the word. A narrow specialist learns more and more about less and less, until he knows everything about nothing and nothing about everything.

There is no woman who could say "goodbye" in fewer than thirty words. :D

If my neighbor beats his wife every day, and I never do, then, in the light of statistics, we both beat our wives every other day.

Reputation is a mask that a person has to wear just as much as trousers or a jacket.

Thanks to maternal instinct, a woman prefers to own one share out of a hundred in a first-class man, rather than the whole package of shares in a second-rate one.

The only lesson that can be learned from history is that people do not learn lessons from history.

The morality of a nation is comparable to a toothache: the worse it is, the more painful it is to touch it.

Before wishing for something too strongly, one should inquire whether the current owner of the desired object is truly happy. François de La Rochefoucauld If all human desires were fulfilled, the earth would become hell. Pierre Bouast

"Democracy is, in essence, a terrible thing, but humanity has not yet invented a better way to determine absolute truth."
T. Roosevelt (or W. Churchill, I don't remember).

If they promise to place you on an altar, ask: as a deity or as a sacrifice?
Marian Karchmarczyk

The mind perishes from contradictions, while the heart thrives on them. One can hate a person as a scoundrel, and one can die for them as for a neighbor.
Vasily Klyuchevsky

in honor of the forum contest - advice for ladies: "Be beautiful and stay silent. The first is easier." "A girl should be in bed no later than eight o'clock in the evening, so that she can return home by eleven." "And Cinderella can become a queen if she returns home before midnight." "The rule of a girl's legs: 1. A modest girl does not cross her legs. 2. A modest girl does not spread her legs when sitting. 3. A modest girl does not show off her legs. 4. A truly modest girl doesn't have legs at all." :D

It's strange that Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake, a fire given to people by Prometheus...
Stanisław Jerzy Lec.
Large states behave like gangsters, and small ones like whores.
Stanley Kubrick.

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The only lesson history can teach us is that people don't learn from history. — words of Charles de Gaulle. Even if you paint me!

If some died and others didn't, dying would be extremely unpleasant. Jean de La Bruyère None of us were born immortal, and if it happened to someone, they wouldn't be as happy as many believe. Plato

...For a nighttime conversation about war:
War is the highest expression of the strength and spirit of a people, and sacrifices are worth making for victory (A. Kolchak)

War would be a picnic if it weren't for lice and dysentery (Margaret Mitchell)

If our soldiers understood what we were fighting for, no war could be waged (Frederick the Great)

Either humanity will end war, or war will end humanity (John F. Kennedy)

War is too important a matter to entrust to the military (Georges Clemenceau)

War cannot be just, because it is impossible to wage war justly, even if you are fighting for justice (Tadeusz Kotarbiński)

Leading untrained people into war is the same as throwing them away (Confucius)

There is always a choice; the paradox is that there is a choice even when there isn't one. Take war, for example. History knows no example where it would be impossible to negotiate and find a compromise; it is not for nothing that God gave us reason... But people have always preferred to use this gift from heaven to make a choice in favor of war, murder, and violence (Robert Williamson)

Boundaries are established so that there is something to fight for. Carol Bushi Political maps are painted with blood. Akram Murtazaev

The first man who threw a curse instead of a stone was the creator of civilization.
Sigmund Freud
When I saw that this guy dented my wing, I told him to go forth and multiply. But in different words.
Woody Allen

I don't remember who said it: Life is a chain of strange, interconnected events, passed on through sexual contact.

It's hard to study when your mouth is full of beer.

All our best ideas were stolen by our ancestors. Whether smart ideas are needed is a complex question. For increasing education, it's not bad, but usually, fools don't need them, and the wise already have them. I know some smart and erudite people, but there's no use for their ideas, neither for themselves nor for anyone else. But smart actions are definitely needed.

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Women sometimes remain silent, but not when they have nothing to say.
Paul Claudel

Even a fool, when he holds his tongue, is counted wise.
King Solomon - Proverbs, 17:28

The smarter a woman is, the more foolishly she makes mistakes.
Girls, don't be offended! ;)