Great Throughts Treasury

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Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

Yes, I am my brotherÂ’s keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death.

Society | Society |

Euripedes NULL

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Eugenio Montale

You do not remember the house of the customs officers from the upward overhanging the cliff: desolate awaits you from the night when entered it the swarm of your thoughts restless and stopped there.

Men | Position | Power | Victim |

Euripedes NULL

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

Anger |

Euripedes NULL

Your very silence shows you agree.

Wealth |

Euripedes NULL

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

Power | Time |

Euripedes NULL

The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.

Good | Power | Wealth |

Euripedes NULL

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Aid | Care | Health | Man | Wealth |

Eustace Budgell

We are generally so much pleased with any little accomplishments, either of body or mind, which have once made us remarkable in the world, that we endeavor to persuade ourselves it is not in the power of time to rob us of them. We are eternally pursuing the same methods which first procured us the applauses of mankind. It is from this notion that an author writes on, though he is come to dotage; without ever considering that his memory is impaired, and that he hath lost that life, and those spirits, which formerly raised his fancy and fired his imagination. The same folly hinders a man from submitting his behavior to his age, and makes Clodius, who was a celebrated dancer at five-and-twenty, still love to hobble in a minuet, though he is past threescore. It is this, in a word, which fills the town with elderly fops and superannuated coquettes.

Human nature | Life | Life | Man | Nature | Nothing | Will |

Euripedes NULL

I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity.

Fate | Power | Fate |

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

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

Wealth |

Euripedes NULL

Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.

Heart | Object |

Eustace Budgell

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship, which always is imperfect where either of these two is wanting.

Envy | Esteem | Man | Nothing | Observation | Search | Will |

Euripedes NULL

Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven — of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.

Courage | Failure | Fortune | Good | Failure |

Euripedes NULL

The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

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

Euripedes NULL

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

Better | Men | Wealth |

Eustace Budgell

We see by these instances what homage the world has formerly paid to beards; and that a barber was not then allowed to make those depredations on the faces of the learned which have been permitted him of late years.

Behavior | Body | Folly | Little | Love | Man | Memory | Past | Power | Time |