This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.
Distrust | Injustice | Injustice | Reality | Self-interest |
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
Fear |
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
Confidence | Love |
It is not enough to have great qualities, we must also have the management of them.
Who lives without any madness, it is not so wise as he thinks.
Accident | Better | Desire | Fear | Reconciliation |
O these encounterers, so glib of tongue, that give a coasting welcome ere it comes, and wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts to every ticklish reader! Set them down for sluttish spoils of opportunity and daughters of the game.
Fear |
O you mighty gods! This world I do renounce, and in your sights shake patiently my great affliction off. If I could bear it longer, and not fall to quarrel with your great opposeless wills, my snuff and loathed part of nature should burn itself out.
Example | Fear | Good | Kill | Madness | Man | Men | Trust | Wonder |
Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first. Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i)
Possessed he is with greatness, and speaks not to himself but with a pride that quarrels at self-breath.
Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek. Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at IV, iii)
Fear |
Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars, - not so sparkling and vivid as many, but dispensing a calm radiance that hallows the whole. It is the bow that rests upon the bosom of the cloud when the storm is past. It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.
Fear | Scepticism | Science | Truth | Universe |
Kautilya, aka Chanakya or Vishnu Gupta NULL
He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.
Murasaki Shikibu, aka Lady Murasaki
In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The grand ladies with high ambitions thought her a presumptuous upstart, and lesser ladies were still more resentful. Everything she did offended someone.