One day everything will be well, that is our hope,’ said Voltaire; ‘today everything is fine, that is our illusion.
Prudence He does well who moors his boat with two anchors. PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The word God is typically invoked to denote the all-encompassing and unanswerable source of authority governing what people can think, say, eat and wear, in what circumstances and with whom they can h...
For the grace of bearing life's inevitable evils is itself agood, and makes goodness arise even from evils byopposing them or enduring them with courage.
Along with enraged responses to Zeppelin air raids, the sinking of the Lusitania, and the use of poison gas in the trenches, these demonisations prompted outrage in the United States and other neutral...
Without doubt, prudence is a virtue. As the Ashanti say, ‘No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
All great truths begin as blasphemies. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it is highly unprofitable to most people. E. B. WHITE
The rich cannot eat money,’ dryly observes a Russian proverb, ‘so it’s just as well that there are poor folk to grow their food.
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish. CHINESE PROVERB
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did. LORD BYRON
Fear begets intolerance, and intolerance begets fear: the cycle is a vicious one.
Civility The knowledge of courtesy is a very necessary study; like grace and beauty, it breeds mutual liking. MONTAIGNE
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness,’ Tennessee Williams observed.
The rich man may never get into heaven,’ remarked Alexander Chase, ‘but the poor are already serving their term in hell.
Speciesism Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time. HENRY BESTON
Per ardua ad astra.
Fear If the diver always thought of the shark, he would never lay hands on the pearl. SA’DI
Goethe had long since remarked that nationalistic feelings ‘are at their strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture’.
Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.
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