Thought for the Day By Aristotle

It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.

By Aristotle

Thought for the Day By Socrates

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

By Socrates

Thought for the Day By Plato.

Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so-called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not.

By Plato.

Thought for the Day By Aristotel

Hope is the dream of a waking man.
By Aristotel

Thought for the Day By Thucydide.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
By Thucydide.

Thought of the day by Socrates

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

Observation Log for NGC 4036