Great Throughts Treasury

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Euripedes NULL

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.

World |

Euripedes NULL

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Folly | Life | Life | Will | Wise |

Eugenio Montale

The man of the future will be born equipped with a brain and a nervous system quite different from those we have we, human yet traditional, Copernican, classics.

Fighting | Man | Unhappiness |

Euripedes NULL

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

Courage | Life | Life | Past | Public | Regard |

Euripedes NULL

Let them that are happy talk of piety; he that would work his adversary woe must take no account of laws.

Glory | Life | Life | Think | Understand |

Eugenio Montale

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.

Life | Life | Love |

Eugenio Montale

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

Life | Life | Looks | Man | Present | Old |

Euripedes NULL

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

World |

Euripedes NULL

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

Life | Life |

Euripedes NULL

Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

Mistake | Opinion | Wisdom |

Euripedes NULL

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Happy | Life | Life |

Euripedes NULL

There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved.

Life | Life |

Evan Esar

Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

World |

Euripedes NULL

The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

Awe | Heaven | Life | Life | Truth | Wise |

Euripedes NULL

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

Force | Men | Mistake | Rule |

Euripedes NULL

Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

Life | Life |

Eugenio Montale

At the inner circle of the disciples and friends of the Cross - composed mostly of men representing the official culture (school, universities, academies) I never belonged. But instead, I breathed the air of other environments where the teaching of the Cross had penetrated inland perhaps indirect.

Man | Waiting | Will | World |