Frastaglio Quotes & Sayings

When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it." Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the drover of the damned; the call of the Lord is a guardian of the saints. — Rumi

Peace means something different from 'not fighting'. Those aren't peace advocates, they're 'stop fighting' advocates. Peace is an active and complex thing and sometimes fighting is part of what it takes to get it. — Jo Walton

When you open your heart to someone, you're also exposing it to pain. — Lisa De Jong

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can. — Frida Kahlo

Etiquette is an intelligent way to live. There are certain ways of living you will learn being around advanced students and mostly your teacher. These are methods that have been handed down for thousands of years. — Frederick Lenz

The failure of market catallactics in no way denies the following truth: given sufficient knowledge the optimal decisions can always be found by scanning over all the attainable states of the world and selecting the one which according to the postulated ethical welfare function is best. The solution 'exists'; the problem is how to 'find' it. — Paul Samuelson

Look at the mirror! Who are you? You are not yourself, you are your culture! Do you want to be yourself? Then leave your prison and discover the paths beyond your path! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Only by constantly exposing myself to someone better than I have I been able to improve. — Joe Hyams

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism. — William Ralph Inge