“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.” Eat That Frog!
Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side. Don Quixote
About fame... Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after. Book VII
It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions. Essays
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