Category: Quotes for the day

The moving finger writes, and having writ, 

Moves on, nor all Thy piety nor Wit,

Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,

Nor all Thy tears wash out a Word of it.

“…There is but one morality, M. Le Beau, as there is but one geometry.  But you will tell me that the greater part of mankind are ignorant of geometry.  True; but if they apply a little to the study of it, all men draw the same conclusions.  …We cannot repeat too frequently that dogmas differ, but that morality is the same among all men who make use of their reason.” 

Voltaire, in the article titled “Morality” in his “Philosophical Dictionary.”

O, that you were yourself! But, love, you are

No longer yours than you yourself live here.

Against this coming end you should prepare

And your sweet semblance to some other give.

Willian Shakespeare, Sonnet XIII