This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
History, in [Nietzsche's] view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
A long time ago, when I was married, in the beginning it was bliss. I eloped after one month, and I married… — Tichina Arnold Copy Share Image
I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
“landmarks were “a little shabby.” Half the gilding was gone from the dome of Les Invalides, where Napoleon was buried. The same… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood; and this meager foster-mother remains their… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object… — Plato Copy Share Image
On how the motion of a planet defines its sphere: ... and thus it comes about gradually by the linking and accumulation… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
If you like poetry let it be first rate, Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith Pope (if you will though I don't admire him),… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god,… — Alfred Einstein Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is serene. Empty. Solitary. Unchanging. Infinite. Eternally present. It is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right.… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
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My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
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