Patrias Translation Quotes & Sayings

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose. — Confucius

A part of me didn't want to need anyone, miss anyone, even love anyone, It'd always been me against the world, and I didn't altogether enjoy that I was starting to lose that feeling. It usually meant that something awful was going to happen — Tijan

The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received. — Confucius

In the strict father model, the "free market" plays a significant, implicit role. The market is a competitive system where the disciplined are rewarded through profit, and the undisciplined (and hence immoral) are punished through poverty. The market is an instrument of morality. — George Lakoff

The reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is they think 'conspiracy' means everybody's on the same program. That's not how it works. Everybody's got a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebody's wife. — James Lee Burke

It is too late to start For destinations not of the heart . I must stay here with my hurt. — R.S. Thomas

Let yourself live in something that is already rightfully yours - your own wild mind. — Natalie Goldberg

The rich - they just live in another realm, really. — John Updike

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas — Pliny The Younger