Quote of the Day

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

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"Man, whose teacher is nature, should not be a piece of wax on which an elevated image of some professor is to be carved."

On This Day

Born May 5, 1846 Henryk Sienkiewicz

Life is awkward, difficult and often creates such Gordian knots that human strength cannot untie them.

Born May 5, 1818 Karl Marx

Without limiting the scope of activity, nothing remarkable can be done in any field. It is the absolute duty of a legislator not to make into a crime what is in the nature of a misdemeanor, and even then only according to the circumstances. He must humanely correct all this as a social problem, because it would be an extreme injustice to sanction these crimes as anti-social crimes.

Born May 5, 1813 Søren Kierkegaard

What is truth but a life for an idea?

Born May 5, 1815 Eugène Marin Labiche

The egoist: ...the one who doesn't think about me.

Died May 5, 1821 Napoleon Bonaparte

If you're going to screw things up, at least be successful.

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