Milika Asanin Quotes & Sayings

My third maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world, and in general, accustom myself to the persuasion that, except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power; so that when we have done our best in things external to us, all wherein we fail of success is to be held, as regards us, absolutely impossible: and this single principle seemed to me sufficient to prevent me from desiring for the future anything which I could not obtain, and thus render me contented — Rene Descartes

What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way. — Plato

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that. — Leah Remini

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. — John Milton

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it. — Maimonides