Among the dead there are those
who still have to be killed.
(Fernard Desnoyers.)
Κατηγορία: Quotes
Voltaire, «Antiquity…»
Antiquity is full of eulogies
of another more remote antiquity.
(Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary.)
Lord Acton, «Resist your time…»
Resist your time –
take a foothold outside it.
(Lord Acton.)
Goethe, «The century is advanced…»
The century is advanced,
but every individual begins afresh.
(Goethe: Maxims and Reflections.)
Edmund Burke, «Ambition…»
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
(Edmund Burke: Letters on a Regicide Peace.)
Mencius, «The great man…»
The great man is he
who has not lost
the heart of a child.
(Mencius.)
Balzac, «It takes a nonentity…»
It takes a nonentity to think of everything.
(Balzac: Pierre Grassou.)
Montesquieu, «Mediocrity…»
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
(Montesquieu: Mes pensées.)
Bernard Shaw, «A hero…»
You cannot be a hero
without being a coward.
(Bernard Shaw: Preface to John Bull’s Other Island.)
Pascal, «Continuous eloquence…»
Continuous eloquence is tedious.
(Pascal: Pensées.)