He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Friedrich Schiller
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
12JUL2026 – Quote of the Day
All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.
Friedrich Schelling
11JUL2026 – Quote of the Day
Soldiers are citizens of death’s grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time’s to-morrows.
In the great hour of destiny they stand,
Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows.
Siegfried Sassoon
10JUL2026 – Quote of the Day
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
Sallust
09JUL2026 – Quote of the Day
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
Sallust
08JUL2026 – Quote of the Day
Is it not better to die in a glorious attempt, than, after having been the sport of other men’s insolence, to resign a wretched and degraded existence with ignominy?
Sallust
07JUL2026 – Quote of the Day
Plenty of eloquence, not enough wisdom.
Sallust
06JUL2026 – Quote of the Day
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
Sallust
05JUL2026 – Quote of the Day
Harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
Sallust
04JUL2026 – Quote of the Day
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Sallust