Book: The father of our fathers

Clotilde is too sensitive, - she said. In our craft we must have eggs.

- Lao-Tzu said, "If someone has wronged you, not revenge. Sit on the banks of the river, and soon you will see how the past you will float a corpse of your enemy".
Lucretia considers this dictum and argues:
- Sometimes the enemy can be helped to fall into the river. At the same time and save time.

The first law of wisdom is to accept the change.

Would be wrong not when you admit your mistake, and when they cease to persist in his opinion.

The human face is a dashboard with indicators.

And you hour not the environmentalists?
- No. We are just people. Do not have to belong to any party, to reflect.

The girl asked herself, life was not her distant ancestors on the trees better than their current descendants.

Life exists not only to eat, kill or die. You can still play.

And your wedding? You get married, you promise to live together "in joy and in sorrow, till death you both shall live". How can we tolerate anyone for sixty years? Life expectancy has increased and marriage has lost its meaning. We have, when man and woman unite, the one who conducts the ceremony, said: "You get married to live together in joy and in sorrow, till death don't love you part". It's more logical.

The truth is the best weapon.

The wildebeest are so numerous that must constantly move in search of pasture.
- Where do they go? asked Lucrezia
- To the North. Like people, they are looking for something new...
- Beautiful image. The problem is that people have left nothing new, ' replied Lucretius.
Yeah, people are all won, all used, all were destroyed.

Fear is the main cause of all failures.

- I'm not offended and on the definition of "fool," continued Katzenberg. A fool comes from the Latin stupidus. Struck with amazement. Fool around surprised and all happy. I hope long to be a fool. "Idiot" in Greek means "special." The idiom is a language feature. I want to be special. As for Magnus...ka, then there is an explicit Association with female sex organs. To call someone Magnus...whom - so to draw a parallel between him and the most beautiful and fertile in the world, isn't it? I believe that I - Piz...to have advantages of a fool, a fool and an idiot.

You know, where did the word "fool"? From the Latin imbecille, which means "without poles". An allusion to the fact that when walking always have to rely on the stick. To live, without relying on any dogma, any solid principle, not prisionais to anything - you need to have courage, right? I hope that I am the fool, and I want them to stay as long as possible.