Giannis Kosmas

Giannis’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (92)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (118)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
historical-fiction‎ (22)
history‎ (20)
non-fiction‎ (14)
mystery‎ (13)

politics‎ (13)
fiction‎ (12)
fantasy‎ (8)
greek-literature‎ (8)
philosophy‎ (8)
thriller‎ (8)
classics‎ (6)
economics‎ (5)

biography‎ (4)
short-stories‎ (4)
psychology‎ (3)
religion‎ (3)
young-adult‎ (3)
crime‎ (2)
environment‎ (1)
magical-realism‎ (1)

must-buy‎ (1)
mythology‎ (1)
poetry‎ (1)
science‎ (1)
sociology‎ (1)
spirituality‎ (1)

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Giannis’s Quotes

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: life, sanity

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“People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

275 likes

“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number-
Shake your chains to earth like
dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many-they are few.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy: Written on Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester

299 likes

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

tags: greatness

12756 likes

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: integrity, morality

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