Great Throughts Treasury

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Euripedes NULL

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

Men |

Euripedes NULL

When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.

Euripedes NULL

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

Better | Safe | Temper | Old |

Euripedes NULL

Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

Life | Life |

Euripedes NULL

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

Heart | Men | Mind | Wise | Think |

Euripedes NULL

Very good to be rich, very good to be strong, but even better to be loved ones a lot of friends.

Eternal | Men | Race |

Euripedes NULL

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

Men |

Euripedes NULL

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Force | Men | Mistake | Rule |

Euripedes NULL

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

Men |

Euripedes NULL

The conflict of patience is such, that the vanquished is better than the vanquisher.

Better | Men | Wealth |

Euripedes NULL

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Good | Men |

Eugenio Maria de Hostos (y Bonilla)

If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you. When you cannot be just because of your nature, be so through your pride.

Feelings | Freedom | Future | Intelligence | Love | Men | Order | Problems | Will |

Eugenio Montale

Where the power denies, in blatant forms but also with occult means, true freedom, popping up every so inspired men like Andrei Sakharov and Marco Pannellawho follow the spiritual position more difficult to assume that a victim in front of his oppressor: the refusal passive . Alone and unarmed, they also speak to us.

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

And the only interest about him arises from the unusual series of events of which his shadow was witness.

Age | Little |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows like a p-p-pin cushion...Where do you lurk? I shall come down your burrow and ch-chivvy you out like an old st-t-toat.

Absurd | Time |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.

Age | Man | Thought | Thought |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them.

Men | Thought | Thought |

Ezra Taft Benson

And so this great nation has come into being under the inspiration of the Almighty to accomplish his purposes. Through modern revelation we have had made very plain to us something of the mission of America and the establishment of our national Constitution.

Blessings | Free enterprise | Men | Mind | People | Right | System | Time |