This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The good man should be a lover of self (for he will both himself profit by doing noble acts, and will benefit his fellows), but the wicked man should not; for he will hurt both himself and his neighbors, following as he does evil passions.
A king rules as he ought, a tyrant as he lists; a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.
Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.
No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?
Abuse | Advertising | Free speech | Law | Lying | Question | Right | Speech | Time |
Charles Dickens, fully Charles John Huffam Dickens
We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.
Knowledge is not a shop for profit or sale, but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of men’s estate.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
The cause of profit is that labor produces more than is required for its support.
It is better to profit by a horrible example than to be one.
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Action | Life | Life | Neglect | Search | Truth | Virtue | Virtue | Value |
Why were we able to put hundreds of thousands of troops and support personnel in Saudi Arabia within a few months to fight Saddam Hussein when we are unable to mobilize hundreds of teachers or doctors and nurses and social workers for desperately underserved inner cities and rural areas to fight the tyranny of poverty and ignorance and child neglect and abuse?
Mikhail Bakunin, fully Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin
The state is the sum of all the negations of the individual liberty of all its members; or rather that of the sacrifices which all its members make, in renouncing one portion of their liberty to the profit of the common good.
Good | Individual | Liberty |
Noah Porter, fully Noah Porter, Jr.
No man can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I
In revolutions there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.