A Quote by Hesiod
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
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Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.
I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.
All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.
Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation into the life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.
Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn.
I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.
The Ranbaxy acquisition doesn't preclude us from making more large acquisitions. The important issue is whether we have the management bandwidth to handle the acquisition.
Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.
For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN.
I've had my moments of feeling miserable in my life, as has everyone, but it's not often that you actually get the opportunity to indulge that feeling. Mostly when people are depressed or miserable, they have to snap out of it because it doesn't work. It doesn't suit day-to-day life.
No, that's what I think God does to you. He gives you some great gig in which you make a whole heap of money, and you're just on top of the world and on every magazine cover, but your personal life is miserable. And for most of that time, I have to say, my personal life was pretty miserable.
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