Mateo Ricci Quotes & Sayings

If my goal in life was to not go insane, this sure was not helping me meet my objective. — Bella Forrest

We must make democracy the popular creed ... If we should fail to do this, our people are bound to suffer ... That is what my father said. It is the reason why I am participating in this struggle. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies. — Jules Renard

It's a lucky man who leaves early from life's banquet, before he's drained to the dregs his goblet - full of wine; yes, it's a lucky man who has not read life's novel to the end, but has been wise enough to part with it abruptly - like me with my Onegin. — Alexander Pushkin

Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?? — Marilyn Monroe

PSA3.5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me. — Anonymous

Ronan's second secret was Adam Parrish. — Maggie Stiefvater

I think it was Mark Twain who said, Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like. — Josh Lanyon

Ricci created memory palaces in his mind. Each item in the palace represented a series of concepts. The rooms and locations within the palace served as directories and files, similar to computer data storage. Ricci instantaneously learned, retained and retrieved hundreds of new Chinese kanji, to the astonished delight of Chinese nobles. — Janet M. Tavakoli