+ To eat at another’s table is your ambition’s height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.] Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Juvenal, Ambitious, Tables, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Juvenal, Bliss, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears? Feraz Zeid, July 7, 2023December 12, 2023, Juvenal, Desire, Fear, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Trust not to outward show. [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.] Feraz Zeid, July 15, 2023December 12, 2023, Juvenal, Appearance, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Honesty’s praised, then left to freeze. Feraz Zeid, September 30, 2023December 26, 2023, Juvenal, Honesty, Left, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Juvenal, Quality, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Juvenal, Crime, Guilt, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate Feraz Zeid, October 19, 2023December 26, 2023, Juvenal, Hate, Shame, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France