Archive for December, 2006

Scholars and Warriors

Friday, December 29th, 2006

A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking being done by cowards and its fighting by fools.
Thucydides

Security

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits
in the presence of fate is strength […]

Happiness

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

Happiness is the absence the of striving for happiness.
Chuang Tzu

Prepare

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
John Wooden