#ease

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#am #approve #body #follows #him

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#doing #far #force #law #man

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#debt #increase #man #much #nobility

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#born #deadly #disease #ever #recovers

My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy. ↗

— Howard Coble

#aged #aging #carolina #health #healthy

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ↗

— Helen Keller

#achieved #ambition #cannot #character #developed

Which way did they go, Peeves?" Filch was saying. "Quick, tell me." "Say 'please.'" "Don't mess with me, Peeves, now where did they go?" "Shan't say nothing if you don't say please," said Peeves in his annoying singsong voice. "All right- PLEASE." "NOTHING! Ha haaa! Told you I wouldn't say nothing if you didn't say please! Ha ha! Haaaaaa!" And they heard the sound of Peeves whooshing away and Filch cursing in rage. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#funny #harry-potter #humor #peeves #please

I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they? ↗

— Jeffrey Combs

#find #i #idea #lot #off

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#environmental #incurable #only #pollution #prevented

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#attributable #causes #every #freedom #general