"I would like to be a philosopher in……" — Shan Sa
"I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China."
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19 Quotes by Shan Sa
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Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.
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To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were…
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I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my…
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In the closed world of the gynaeceum, despite the gardens and parkland extending beyong the horizon, despite the insurmountable walls…
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Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold…
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Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.
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Out on the street I start to run; I need to breathe in this life, the trees, the warmth of…
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I splash my head with ice-cold water and turn to face the mirror. When my image appears I instinctively look…
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Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust. Who will remember the love a soldier once knew?
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I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is…
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Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold,…
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would you dare to love me?
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More Ancient Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our…
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,…
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
— Enid Bagnold
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To…
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My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted…
— Annie Besant
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
— Annie Besant
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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