Great Throughts Treasury

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Evan Esar

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

Eugenio Montale

His natural gift is to see without being seen and to be present as it can be a fact or rather a gift of nature. [ Sergio Solmi ]

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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 |

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No one who lives in error is free.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Deeds | Friend | Nothing | Time | Deeds |

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

Life | Life |

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We must flaw friends just and noble anger to the right of their friends from harm and injustice.

Caution | Enemy | Man | Prudence | Prudence |

Eugenio Montale

I learned a truth that few people know: that the ' art bestows its consolations especially the artists failed.

Future | God | Ignorance | Man | God |

Eugenio Montale

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

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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 |

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If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

Man | Oblivion |

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Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.

Man | Pity |

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The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

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

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When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Good | Man |

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A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

Man |

Eugenio Montale

The inspiration often seems like a tarantula bite him, shake him from sleep atavistic and in those moments it is impossible to write better than him, with far more cunning, with the most perfect taste.

Art | Consciousness | Instinct | Music | Practice | Style | Time | Art | Poem |

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Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

Man | Wise |

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 |