Daily Wisdom

[A]mun]

 

[Rence Kristoff]

Someone said that there is greatness in everything, but not everything is supposed to be great.

 

[Rufus]

@A]mun's signature is quite nice: "Failing to succeed does not mean failing to progress."

 

[Edge45]

"The problem is not the problem, but your attitude to that problem."

 

[VeljkoM]

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

~ Cicero

 

[Roland]

"It's not God who picks our choices for us, you have a grave and you have a crop, it's up to you to dig either." - @Azsure

"The Only Disability in Life is a Bad Attitude" - Anonymous

"We think too much and feel too little" - Charlie Chaplin

 

[Gottfried]

There are no utter wisdom or solution, method, mission, destiny or something else, just do what you like or can. The world is moving!

 

[San]

"So tell me, where should I go? To the left, where nothing's right? Or to the right, where nothing's left?"

 

[deepstrasz]

Every kick in the butt is one step forth.

 

[pyf]

"Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations."


... but be aware that some people may disagree:

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life - Wikipedia
Conan the Barbarian (1982 film) - Wikipedia

 

[deepstrasz]

It's better to be pessimistic declaring it can't get worse than optimistic to think it can get worse.

 

[Edge45]

Perhaps the loneliest place is in between.

 

[TheLordOfChaos201]

'I will speak ill
of no man and speak all the good I
know of everybody'

 

[Cuore]

The one who never shits is surely going to explode.

 

[TheLordOfChaos201]

Ye whom smelt eth, dealt eth!
Ye whom denied-eth supplie-eth
Ye whom accusas-eth extruded eth

 

[deepstrasz]

Live by the sword, die by the sword!

 

[TheLordOfChaos201]

Only the mad and genius talk to themselves, for often only they can understand their layered minds, it's best not to disturb them with inquiry least you become their next ground breaking break through

 

[Cuore]

Fortuna vitrea est, tum cum splendet, frangitur.

 

[deepstrasz]

Festina lente.

Spoiler

 

[TheLordOfChaos201]

I'm so God damn wise , I saved a fish from drowning.

Be smarter then other people if you can (you failed) but do not tell them so.

Stupidity is a lack of understanding and intelligence is an appreciation of what you don't know.

 

[Cherrymage]

Quotes from @Mythic the Legend :

Darkness does not always mean evil. There is truth in darkness that those lost in the light do not know.

You know where corruption stems from? Power. Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

 

[TheLordOfChaos201]

Power is not the tool of corruption, but it is self which remains the deciding factor

for power is found in every weapon but so few are responsible for their abuse

 

[deepstrasz]

If you'd shut up, you'd be a philosopher.

 

[Nowow]

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

-- Samuel Vimes, from Terry Pratchett's "Guards! Guards!"

 

[pyf]

"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money."
[...]

-- Samuel Vimes, from Terry Pratchett's "Guards! Guards!"

 

[Chaosy]

 

[TheLordOfChaos201]

those who can not converse without the meme, are the socially awkward

 

[Chaosy]

 

[deepstrasz]

Whenever in danger of theft don't use your phone to call for help for they might take it too.

 

[San]

""
--,1890--

 

[TheLordOfChaos201]

reasons to carry a brick phone

when threatened, 'Your life or your phone!' pull your phone out of your pocket and bash their brains in with it

 

[A]mun]

edit: woops chaosy beat me to it. still remains true!

 

[deepstrasz]

Don't give advice if you're not asked to.

 

[Rufus]

Wut?
Why was I just randomly unsubscribed from this thread?

Anyway, glad to see people are so... wise.

"The problem is not the problem, but your attitude to that problem."

Classic and true.

There are no utter wisdom or solution, method, mission, destiny or something else, just do what you like or can. The world is moving!

Actual good stuff.

Every kick in the butt is one step front.

Agreed. Forward* though?

 

[deepstrasz]

Agreed. Forward* though?

Ah, forth would have been the word I wanted to write. Edited. Thanks.
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Get a bitch or die trying.

 

[deepstrasz]

Don't do today what you can do tomorrow!

 

[Rufus]

Simplified version:
Don't tomorrow today.

 

[San]

Just don't.

 

[TheLordOfChaos201]

A life of mediocrity falls to those that are unwilling to do what is socially accosted

 

[TheLordOfChaos201]

A life of mediocrity falls to those that are unwilling to do what is socially accosted

 

[deepstrasz]

Give up now and you have failed.

 

[TheLordOfChaos201]

achievement does not mean being successful but instead never stop trying

 

[deepstrasz]

Don't multipost or else you make things dirty.

 

[Cuore]

qui magis potest minus flet

 

[deepstrasz]

If you want to make your message understood communicate on the same language as the receptor/receiver.

 

[A]mun]

^ just post the translation as well, you lazy bugger!

 

[Cuore]

I, for one, will not lower latin to an english translation, Do it yourself if you're not a lazy bugger.

It's also a very easy translation that a beginner can solve very quickly

#Can't_touch_my_latin_stuff_MMXVII

And @deepstrasz ffs take some pride in your language which is actually closer to true latin than mine in many ways

 

[deepstrasz]

Latin is a dead language.

Even poor J. R. R. Tolkien had something to say when they reformed the liturgies to English:
"I vividly remember going to church with him in Bournemouth. He was a devout Roman Catholic and it was soon after the Church had changed the liturgy from Latin to English. My grandfather obviously didn't agree with this and made all the responses very loudly in Latin while the rest of the congregation answered in English. I found the whole experience quite excruciating, but my grandfather was oblivious. He simply had to do what he believed to be right." ~Simon Tolkien (grandson).

 

[Cuore]

Latin is undead*.

 

[deepstrasz]

Eternity lasts until consciousness dies.