The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.
-Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (1554-1628)
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Beauty is the promise of happiness Stendhal 1783-1842
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
-Stendhal (1783-1842)
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame…
Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
-Benjamin Franklin
We see then how far the monuments of…
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not some books continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, and cities have been decayed and demolished?
-Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Q What is your most profound place Zen…
Q : What is your most profound place, Zen Master?
A : Nothing conceals it, but not even one in a million can see it.
-DaeWon Hwadu: Zen Questions and Answers from Korea