Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)
He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.
Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge.
Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.
Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.
I often think about a life of crime. But alas, politics isn’t for me.
#TRUTH #BEREAL We must be ruthlessly honest with and about Self.. Self Assessments are often inflated or deflated or just imaginary..
Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions.
People will follow someone as a leader, who has vision and purpose; often that leader doesn’t wear a title.
Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.
When you're sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the place of arrival.
I often confuse fog and mist. But one is not the other any more than either are either. Let this be a lesson in love.
Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. "Almost" always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible.
I like the way he says we and am amazed, as I often am by language as power, at the way a simple pronoun can upend a relationship.
Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.
In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.
The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies, as what they do.