"Do not choose for your wife any woman you would not choose for a friend if she were a man."

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“All these philosophers are no more than surgeons.”

“In such times, if you want neither to lie nor to wound, you are reduced to being silent.”

“Fortunately, when he lacks reason he also lacks words.”

“Stars more beautiful to the eyes than the telescope that robs them of their illusions.”

“The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them forever.”

“Of what must be said and what must not be said. The importance of knowing.”

Resonant Thoughts

"I actually don't like playing the piano or conducting the orchestra.There is always an exchange of energies,which is not even.It's one against 80."

— Joe Hisaishi

Music1950

#friendship

"... In short, while I am writing the present book, I have written so far around 200 books and articles on different aspects of science, philosophy, theology, and hekmat. ... I never entered the servic…"

— Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi

Medicine

#time

"You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away.Every time Eleanor pulled away fro…"

— Rainbow Rowell

Literature1973

#friendship

"Musharraf has bent over backwards, sir. Quite frankly, I would have bet my pension that Musharraf would not have done half of what he's done. He's done a tremendous amount for us."

— Michael Scheuer

Education1952

#war