Heaven is equally distant everywhere.
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Women are one and all a set of vultures.
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PetroniusPetronius Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.
PetroniusPetronius Everyone will find what he’s looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
PetroniusPetronius While fortune lasts you will see your friend’s face.
PetroniusPetronius The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.
PetroniusPetronius Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.
PetroniusPetronius The world wants to be deceived.
PetroniusPetronius The mind longs for what it has missed.
PetroniusPetronius Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.
PetroniusPetronius A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
PetroniusPetronius A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.
PetroniusPetronius He has gone over to the majority.
PetroniusPetronius Nothing is falser than people’s preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.
PetroniusPetronius Can’t you see that I’m only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb
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From our community writers
Forgiveness comes after understanding & understanding comes after acceptance.
Tom MetcafeTom Metcafe Someday your pen will write a revolution. Until then, write your pain.
Fareena AliyaFareena Aliya Time is precious. So are the people in your life. So love and be loved. Because tomorrow is never promised.
Jenny AJenny A Thank you for still being there for yourself. For being strong. For being resilient. Keep going.
Yohan AcostaYohan Acosta There will never be a day, I am not thankful for the fire you brought to my life that still warms me to the bones.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You could have shook my whole world luckily I became aware, and I took a turn.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers Be strong enough to bloom even in the storm.
Safna SulaimanSafna Sulaiman There is magic in the minuscule.
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More on distance
When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.
Bob WoodwardBob Woodward I’ve always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that’s being drained because of a diesel fuel leak and a cow named Hortense and some blackbirds flying over and a woman in the distance waving, then I might get somewhere.
Bobbie Ann MasonBobbie Ann Mason Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.
Beryl MarkhamBeryl Markham Jason glanced at the creature. It remained the same distance away as before, still as a statue. “What do you want?” Jason asked. No answer. “Are you the thing that followed Tark?
Brandon MullBrandon Mull GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
Bette MidlerBette Midler We’re always contradicting ourselves. We want people to tell us apart…. …yet we don’t want them to be able to. We want people to get to know us… …but we also want them to keep their distance.
Bisco HatoriBisco Hatori Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn’t feel like it’s about me. Time created a distance.
Beth GibbonsBeth Gibbons Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose,
Bill BrysonBill Bryson