A Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat.
Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between their views confirms the ancient Indian wisdom that Brahman, the ultimate reality without, is identical to Atman, the reality within.
Faith is the profound knowing that comes before reality confirms it.
Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.
Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.
Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
Anything that confirms for me the transitory nature of reality isn't bad. It's a good lesson in human hubris.
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