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# Quintus Sextius

Quintus Sextius the Elder (c. 50 BC) was a Roman philosopher, whose philosophy combined pythagoreanism with stoicism.

## Quotes
### Sentences of Sextus

* The sage and the contemner of wealth most resemble God.
* You have in yourself some thing similar to God, and therefore use yourself as the temple of God, on account of that which in you resembles God.
* The greatest honor which can be paid to God is to know and imitate him.
* Consider lost all the time in which you do not think of divinity.
* A good intellect is the choir of divinity.
* Be not anxious to please the multitude
* Accustom your soul after (it has conceived all that is great of) divinity, to conceive something great of itself.
* Nothing is so peculiar to wisdom as truth.
* To live, indeed, is not in our power; but to live rightly is.
* There is danger, and no negligible one, to speak of God even the things that are true.
* You should not dare to speak of God to the multitude.
* He who is worthy of God is also a god among men.
* He best honors God who makes his intellect as like God as possible.
* It is not death; but a bad life, which destroys the soul.

## Quotes about Quintus Sextius

* We then had read to us a book by Quintus Sextius the Elder. He is a great man, if you have any confidence in my opinion, and a real Stoic, though he himself denies it. Ye Gods, what strength and spirit one finds in him! This is not the case with all philosophers; there are some men of illustrious name whose writings are sapless. They lay down rules, they argue, and they quibble; they do not infuse spirit simply because they have no spirit. But when you come to read Sextius you will say: "He is alive; he is strong; he is free; he is more than a man; he fills me with a mighty confidence before I close his book." I shall acknowledge to you the state of mind I am in when I read his works: I want to challenge every hazard; I want to cry: "Why keep me waiting, Fortune? Enter the lists! Behold, I am ready for you!" I assume the spirit of a man who seeks where he may make trial of himself where he may show his worth … I want something to overcome, something on which I may test my endurance. For this is another remarkable quality that Sextius possesses: he will show you the grandeur of the happy life and yet will not make you despair of attaining it; you will understand that it is on high, but that it is accessible to him who has the will to seek it.
** Seneca, Moral letters to Lucilius, LXIV, 2-5
* Sotion used to tell me why Pythagoras abstained from animal food, and why, in later times, Sextius did also. In each case, the reason was different, but it was in each case a noble reason. Sextius believed that man had enough sustenance without resorting to blood, and that a habit of cruelty is formed whenever butchery is practised for pleasure. Moreover, he thought we should curtail the sources of our luxury; he argued that a varied diet was contrary to the laws of health, and was unsuited to our constitutions.
** Seneca, Moral letters to Lucilius, CVIII, 17-18
# Quirinus Kuhlmann

Quirinus Kuhlmann (February 26, 1651 – October 4, 1689) was a German Baroque poet and mystic.

## Quotes

* First one should write no more or no less letters than the sound of the word requires.Second, one should write as one speaks and not try to pay attention to the style of other writers , particularly academicians.
** Preface to Lehrreicher Geschicht-Herold

### Love-Kiss XL1

* All things do change:All things do love:All things are locked in hate:, Whoever fully thinks things through/holds the key to man's estate.
* My poem (Love -Kisses XL1) is like a nugget of gold or clump of earth it contains within itself the seeds rhetoric, ethics, philosophy, mathematics,geography, music, astronomy, medicine, nature, law, writing, the more you seek within it, the more you will discover. If you love Heaven, take all this with sympathetic eyes and accept my zealous suggestion, then we shall not hesitate to inform others of this matter, with mature judgement and ripeness of experience, wheresoever divine grace might give us the life and opportunity to so do.
* As harsh as Love-Kiss might sound in your ears it will resonate more swetly to your heart.
** Love-Kiss XL1 ' The Mutabilty of Human Affairs'
# Quli Qutb Shah

Sultan Quli Qutb-ul-Mulkmore often though less correctly referred to in English as Quli Qutb Shah (1485–1543), was the founder of the Qutb Shahi dynasty, which ruled the Sultanate of Golconda in southern India from 1518 to 1687. Of Turkmen origin and born in Persia, he originally served the Bahmani sultan, and was awarded the title Qutb-ul-Mulk (Pillar of the Realm) as military chief; he eventually took control of Golconda.

## Quotes

* After his return the King proceeded to reduce the fortress of Dewurconda, strongly situated on the top of a hill, which after a long siege was taken, and the Hindoo palaces and temples, by the King’s orders were consumed to ashes, and mosques built in their stead.
** Sultãn Qulî Qutb Shãh of Golconda (AD 1507-1543) Dewarconda (Andhra Pradesh) Tãrîkh-i-Firishta, translated by John Briggs under the title History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India, first published in 1829, New Delhi Reprint 1981, Vol. III, pp. 212
# Polymath

Polymath is an individual whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems.

## Quotes

* [how can the scholar hope to master the] vast Chaos and confusion of Bookes?
** Robert Burton according to Journal article Robert Burton and the problems of polymathy (Copyright date: 2014)

## References

* ↑ "Ask The Philosopher: Tim Soutphommasane – The quest for renaissance man". The Australian. 10 April 2010.
# Polyptych of Saint Barbara

The Polyptych of Saint Barbara (Italian: Polittico di Santa Barbara) was painted by Palma Vecchio in the early 1520s as the altar-piece for the Venetian church of Santa Maria Formosa. It is a composition of six panels, with Saint Barbara in the centre, under the dead Christ, and to right and left Saints Dominic (or Vincent Ferrer), Sebastian, John the Baptist and Anthony the Abbot. The central panel of Saint Barbara is considered by many to be one of Palma's greatest achievements.

## Quotes about the Polyptych of Saint Barbara

* And Palma Vecchio, too, must be held in grateful reverence for his Santa Barbara, standing in calm, grand beauty above an altar in the Church of Santa Maria Formosa. It is an almost unique presentation of a hero-woman, standing in calm preparation for martyrdom, without the slightest air of pietism, yet with the expression of a mind filled with serious conviction.
** Cross, J. W., ed. (1885). George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 2. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons. p. 244.
* Having convinced herself that Mr Casaubon was altogether right, she recovered her equanimity, and was an agreeable image of serene dignity when she came into the drawing-room in her silver-grey dress—the simple lines of her dark-brown hair parted over her brow and coiled massively behind, in keeping with the entire absence from her manner and expression of all search after mere effect. Sometimes when Dorothea was in company, there seemed to be as complete an air of repose about her as if she had been a picture of Santa Barbara looking out from her tower into the clear air; but these intervals of quietude made the energy of her speech and emotion the more remarked when some outward appeal had touched her.
** Eliot, George (1874). Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life. 2nd ed. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons. Bk. I. Chap. x. p. 62.
* It is impossible for sight or spirit to be indifferent to the spell of that exquisite countenance of St. Barbara; we have never been able to pass by Santa Maria Formosa without stopping for a moment to pay our devotions to the lovely patroness of the gunnery of the Most Serene Republic. The drawing of the drapery is superb, the flesh and hands admirable for life and softness; it is the beauty of goodness, the noble serenity of a saint who is still a woman.
** Yriarte, Charles (1896). Venice: Its History, Art, Industries and Modern Life. (Translated from the French by F. J. Sitwell). Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co. p. 260.
# Pompey

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (29 September 106 BC – 29 September 48 BC), generally referred to in English as Pompey the Great, was a Roman general and politician.

## Quotes
### Life of Pompey

    Quotes of Pompey, as portrayed in Life of Pompey by Plutarch
* Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!
** “Οὐ παύσεσθε,” εἶπεν, “ἡμῖν ὑπεζωσμένοις ξίφη νόμους ἀναγινώσκοντες;” Plutarch, Lives. Pompey 10.3.2. To the Mamertines in Messana, complaining about Pompey's legal jurisdiction after their city was retaken during the civil warfare. Lit.: "'Will you not give up,' he said, 'reading laws to us men girt with swords?'"
* More people worship the rising than the setting sun.
** Spoken by a young Pompey to the Dictator Sulla to get Sulla to award him a triumph
* To sail is necessary, to live is not.
** The needs of the state (to supply their starving people with grain brought by ship) outweigh the needs of the individual, such as a sailor who would prefer not to risk death by leaving port in a violent storm to pick up a grain shipment.

## Quotes about Pompey

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* Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!
** Joseph Addison, in Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act II, sc. 1
* O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome: And when you saw his chariot but appear, Have you not made an universal shout, That Tiber trembled underneath her banks, To hear the replication of your sounds Made in her concave shores? And do you now put on your best attire? And do you now cull out a holiday? And do you now strew flowers in his way That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone! Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plague That needs must light on this ingratitude.
** William Shakespeare, in Julius Cæsar (1599); Marullus in Act I, sc. 1
* And besides, he was what? 25? He couldn't stand for a Praetorship even if he wanted to. But like I say, I don't care. I'm fine with it. I'm happy for him. Hooray for Pompey. Pompey the Great.
** Mike Duncan describing Crassus's view of Pompey in The History of Rome Episode 35- Crassus and Pompey

## External links

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# Platonic love

Platonic love is a type of love in which sexual desire or romantic features are nonexistent or have been suppressed, sublimated, or purgated, but it means more than simple friendship.
The term is derived from the name of Greek philosopher Plato, although he never used the term. Platonic love, as devised by Plato, concerns rising through levels of closeness to wisdom and true beauty, from carnal attraction to individual bodies to attraction to souls, and eventually, union with the truth.

## Quotes

* And then there are such things as love divine, Bright and immaculate, unmix’d and pure, Such as the angels think so very fine, And matrons who would be no less secure, Platonic, perfect, ‘just such love as mine;’ Thus Julia said—and thought so, to be sure; And so I’d have her think, were I the man On whom her reveries celestial ran.
* The hand which still held Juan’s, by degrees Gently, but palpably confirm’d its grasp, As if it said, ‘Detain me, if you please;’ Yet there’s no doubt she only meant to clasp His fingers with a pure Platonic squeeze: She would have shrunk as from a toad, or asp, Had she imagined such a thing could rouse A feeling dangerous to a prudent spouse.
** Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto I
* To hold the pure delights of brain Above light loves and sweet champagne. For, you and I, we did eschew The egoistic "I" and "you;"And all our observations ran On Art and Letters, Life and Man. Proudly we sat, we two, on high, Throned in our Objectivity;Scarce friends, not lovers (each avers), But sexless, safe Philosophers.
** Amy Levy, "Philosophy"
** A London Plane-Tree, and Other Verse (1889)
* a lost battalion of platonic conversationalists
** Allen Ginsberg, "Howl" (1956)
# Plastic

Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic compounds that are malleable and so can be molded into solid objects.

## Quotes

* Life in plastic; it's fantastic.
** Aqua, "Barbie Girl", Aquarium (1997), California: Universal Music Group
* A gag; a plastic bag on a monument.
** Billie Joe Armstrong, "Holiday", American Idiot (2004), California: Reprise Records
* Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Benjamin: Yes, sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Benjamin: Yes, I am. Mr. McGuire: Plastics. Benjamin: Exactly how do you mean? Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?
** The Graduate (1967), written by Charles Webb, Calder Willingham, and Buck Henry

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Plastic on Wikipedia
# PlayStation 4

The PlayStation 4 (PS4) is an eighth-generation home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Announced as the successor to the PlayStation 3 during a press conference on February 20, 2013, it was launched on November 15 in North America, November 29 in Europe, South America and Australia; and February 22, 2014, in Japan. It competes with Nintendo's Wii U and Switch, and Microsoft's Xbox One.

## Quotes

* Do you want the honest truth? This machine [the PlayStation 4] is not so strong as you think. This is like a five-year-old PC. If consoles were as powerful as PCs are today, you would see all different games. Most of the work developers put out there is to make them work on consoles.
** Josef Fares, as quoted in "The PS4 is 'like a five-year-old PC' and is holding games back, says developer" (June 2017), by Kirk McKeand, PCGamesN

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on PlayStation 4 on Wikipedia
# Mary Ann Glendon

Mary Ann Glendon (October 7, 1938 –) is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a former United States Ambassador to the Holy See. She teaches and writes on bioethics, comparative constitutional law, property, and human rights in international law.

## Quotes

* This is a time when the institutional church at every level is badly in need of lay assistance. Go into it with your eyes open, but also, go into it with the recognition that the church has a special need right now, and that laypeople can enable the clergy to do what they were called to do, what they were trained to do and what they can do best. We can take some of that burden off of the clergy.
** US ambassador to three popes says the church needs lay assistance at every level (29 March 2024) Catholic Review
# Mary Alice Monroe

Mary Alice Monroe is an American author.

## Quotes

* Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others.
** The Beach House (2002)

## External links

* Official site
# Mary-Claire King

Mary-Claire King (born February 27, 1946) is an American geneticist. She has won several major awards, including the 2004 Gruber Prize in Genetics, the 2014 Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science, and the 2018 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine.

## Quotes

* When those of us who are now middle-aged went to high school and to college, what we learned about cancer was completely descriptive. We learned how cancer cells look compared to the way normal cells look and it was beautiful, it was elegant. We learned how cancerous organs look compared to the way normal organs look. We learned about how patients decline with cancer. But it was very frustrating at least for me, because we didn’t have any understanding or sense of why these processes were occurring. Exactly what was happening, why it was it happening, when was it happening, how was it happening, all the questions you ask of mystery. We now don’t have them all answered — if it were an easy problem it would have long since been solved. But we do have a very good sense of the kinds of changes that a cell undergoes between the time it is a normal cell and the time that it is growing completely out of control, causes a tumor that can invade, metastasize and kill its host.
** Expert Interview Transcript: Mary-Claire King, Ph.D.; 8.5 Expert Interview Transcript in part 8, Cell Biology and Cancer. Rediscovering Biology: Molecular to Global Perspectives (video course produced in 2003 by Oregon Public Broadcasting, Annenberg Learner — learner.org).
* When women our age started in the field, there were very few of us, and we were absolutely on the margins. People pretty much ignored us. I have come to realize that there was a great freedom in being ignored, that you could go after huge questions, because nobody noticed.
** as quoted by Jane Gitschier in, Evidence Is Evidence: An Interview with Mary-Claire King (September 26, 2013).
* And my mother shrieked ... "You can't leave that child here alone!" And, you know, fair enough. And this unmistakable voice, above and behind me, said, "Emily and I will be fine." And I turned around and said, "Thank you." And my mother looked at me and said, "You can't leave Emily with a total stranger!" And I said, "Mom, if you can't trust Joe DiMaggio, who can you trust?"
** The Moth Presents Dr. Mary-Clarie King at the World Science Festival (June 27, 2014). (quote at 9:43 of 12:32)

## External links

Encyclopedic article on Mary-Claire King on Wikipedia
# Mary Akpobome

Mary Akpobome is a director of Heritage Banking Company Limited of Nigeria (HBCL).She is the founder of the Purple Girl Foundation,a Non Governmental Organization set up to enhance female education.

## Quotes

* Poverty remains the most important factor in determining whether a girl can access education.
* Life has taught me to be real to myself, that I should be kind to people, that I should be there for people because people have been there for me
* An empowered girl will multiply the society. The foundation will provide everything for the child up to university level
* Education for boys and girls is the key to releasing their potential for Nigeria and the world
# MaryJane Mwangi

MaryJane Mwangi, also Mary Jane Mwangi, is a corporate executive in Kenya, who served as the managing director and chief executive officer of the National Oil Corporation of Kenya, from August 2017 to October 2019.

## Quotes

* It is true we lost our product between 2016 and 2018 and investigations are going on.
** MaryJane Mwangi said (The Star, 11 October 2019)
# Mary Abigail Dodge

Mary Abigail Dodge (March 31, 1833 – August 17, 1896) was an American writer and essayist, under pseudonym Gail Hamilton. Her writing is noted for its wit and promotion of equality of education and occupation for women.

## Quotes

* Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.
** Country Living and Country Thinking, Preface, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* Every person is responsible for only the good within his abilities, and for no more, and no one can tell whose sphere is the largest.
** Country Living and Country Thinking, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* The total depravity of inanimate things.
** Epigram, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

## External links

* Works by Gail Hamilton at Project Gutenberg
* Essays by Gail Hamilton at Quotidiana.org
# Selma Blair

Selma Blair (born June 23, 1972) is an American actress.

## Sourced

* Deport all these terrorist supporting goons. Islam has destroyed Muslim countries and then they come here and destroy minds. They know they are liars. Twisted justifications. May they meet their fate.
** February 2024
# Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

## Quotes

* Women can do nothing that has permanence.
** The Miracles of Anti-Christ (1899)
* If you have learned anything at all from us, Tummetott, you no longer think that the humans should have the whole earth to themselves.
** The Further Adventures of Nils (1907)
** Said by Akka, leader of the wild geese to Nils
# Selma Louise Freudenberg

Selma Louise Freudenberg (1921-2009) was the director of home preparedness for the Paramus Civil Defense and Disaster Control.

## Quotes

* "I couldn't believe it, if it had just been a social event I could have understood, but this means peoples' lives, at least there are 4 people who have been won over, … it's pathetic, If a crisis arose, people would turn around and ask what C.D. was doing for them. We need something to wake people up. We want to win people over, If we save only one person it's all worthwhile."
** "Aloof Disinterest Puts Chill On C.D. Readiness Session". The Bergen Record. December 6, 1961.
** Selma Louise Freudenberg on the lack of interest in attending Civil Defense preparedness classes on December 6, 1961. The Cuban Missile Crisis would start the following year and run from October 16, 1962 to October 28, 1962.
* "I really feel we have a big job to do to keep women from getting panicky if something happens; what will they do then, go out and get prepared when it's too late? If I have time with my three children plus the job, then I'm sure many others do too. Some one has to wake them up and I'm sure going to try."
** "Paramus C. D. Aide Ready For Trouble". The Bergen Record. October 9, 1961.
** Selma Louise Freudenberg on the lack of interest in attending Civil Defense preparedness classes on October 9, 1961.
# Self-sufficiency

Self-sufficiency is the state of not requiring aid or support.

## Quotes

* The soul that does not consider the question of the body’s self-sufficiency cannot make itself self-sufficient.
** Apollonius of Tyana, letter to Euphrates, Epp. Apoll. 82
* The man who follows nature and not vain opinions is independent in all things. For in reference to what is enough for nature every possession is riches, but in reference to unlimited desires even the greatest wealth is not riches but poverty.
** Epicurus, Fragment 45
* Nothing satisfies the man who is not satisfied with a little.
** Epicurus, Fragment 69
* Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all riches.
** Epicurus, Fragment 70
* What is the scientific man? Firstly, a commonplace type of man, with commonplace virtues: that is to say, a non-ruling, non-authoritative, and non-self-sufficient type of man.
** Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, § 206 (Helen Zimmern trans.)
* Is the intellect to be regarded as autonomous and self-sufficient, as pursuing ends of its own, and as judging by standards of its own? or is it to be regarded as the servant of alien interests which impose their ends and standards upon it? The modern tendency has been towards the latter or practical interpretation of the knowing faculties.
** Ralph Barton Perry, "The Integrity of the Intellect," Harvard Theological Review, vol. 13, no. 3, July 1920, p. 221
* We haven’t even got a word for the quality I mean—for the self-sufficiency of man’s spirit. It’s difficult to call it selfishness or egotism, the words have been perverted.
** Ayn Rand, Howard Roark in The Fountainhead (1996), p. 607
* The feeling of self-sufficiency! It is that which restrains those whose personal value is in itself great riches, from such considerable sacrifices as are demanded by intercourse with the world. ... Ordinary people are sociable and complaisant just from the very opposite feeling;—to bear others’ company is easier for them than to bear their own.
** Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims, T. B. Saunders, trans., § 9

## See also

* Autodidacticism
* Autonomy