truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 18 December 2006 10:44 am

"Hope, transcending servile fear, binds us to the love of God, since 'hope does not disappoint' (Rom. 5:5), containing as it does the seed of that twofold love on which hang 'the law and the prophets' (Matt. 22:40). And 'love never fails' (I Cor. 13:8), once it has become to him who shares in it the motive for fulfilling the divine law both in the present life and in the life to be."

St. Philotheos of Sinai.

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 18 December 2006 10:48 am

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Benjamin Franklin

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 18 December 2006 10:49 am

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Benjamin Franklin

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 18 December 2006 10:50 am

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Benjamin Franklin

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 18 December 2006 10:51 am

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 18 December 2006 10:51 am

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

Benjamin Franklin

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 18 December 2006 10:52 am

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Benjamin Franklin