truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 18 December 2006 11:28 am

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 18 December 2006 11:29 am

When in doubt, don't.

Benjamin Franklin

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 18 December 2006 11:30 am

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
Benjamin Franklin

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 18 December 2006 11:31 am

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.
Who is powerful? He that governs his passions.
Who is rich? He that is content.
Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 18 December 2006 11:31 am

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Benjamin Franklin

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 18 December 2006 11:32 am

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Benjamin Franklin

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 18 December 2006 12:30 pm

To live without Hope is to cease to live.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Life is hope free from all anxiety, wealth hidden from the senses but attested by the understanding and by the true nature of things."

St. Peter of Damaskos (Twenty-Four Discourses no. 6,
The Philokalia Vol. 3 pg 224)