truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 9 January 2007 8:48 am

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 9 January 2007 9:10 am

Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 9 January 2007 9:13 am

Virtues and vices are the food of the soul and it can feed on either one, turning to whichever one it wants. If it is bent toward moral excellence, it will be fed by virtue - by righteousness, temperance, meekness, endurance. In other words, it is just as St. Paul says, 'being nourished by the word of truth' (1 Tim. 4:6).

St. Ignatius of Antioch

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 9 January 2007 9:14 am

In two things then was Abraham victorious: that he killed his son although he did not kill him and that he believed that after Isaac died he would be raised up again and would go back down with him. For Abraham was firmly convinced that He Who said to him, 'through Isaac shall your descendants be named,' was not lying.

St. Ephrem the Syrian, Commentary on Genesis

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 9 January 2007 2:34 pm

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 9 January 2007 2:36 pm

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Jonathan Swift

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 9 January 2007 2:37 pm

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
Jonathan Swift