Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321)
"All love that glows within you; to dismiss
Or harbour it, the power is in yourselves."
Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy (Purgatory, Canto XVIII), translated...
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321)
"Heaven calls,
And, round about you wheeling, courts your gaze
With everlasting beauties. Yet your eye
Turns with fond doting still upon the earth.
Therefore...
Torquato Tasso (c. 1544-1595)
"The eye sees falsely, by sheer speed deceived;
and fear makes fraud more readily believed."
The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, Canto...
Jonathan Swift (c. 1667-1745)
"Having strictly examined all the persons of greatest name in the courts of princes for an hundred years past, I found...
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321)
"Heaven calls,
And, round about you wheeling, courts your gaze
With everlasting beauties. Yet your eye
Turns with fond doting still upon the earth.
Therefore...
The Bhagavad Gita (c. 2nd century BCE-2nd century CE)
"Oh! we are set
upon doing
a great harm,
we are eager to kill
our own people,
all for the sake
of...
Jonathan Swift (c. 1667-1745)
"Sometimes a war is entered upon, because the enemy is too strong, and sometimes because he is too weak. Sometimes our...
Sun Tzu (sayings recorded between 6th-3rd century BCE)
"With an understanding of
Weakness and
Strength,
An army
Can strike
Like a millstone
Cast at an egg."
Sun Tzu’s The Art of War...
Socrates (c. 469-399 BCE)
"The lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him."
This saying, attributed to Socrates, was recorded in...
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321)
"The highest Good
Unlimited, ineffable, doth so speed
To love, as beam to lucid body darts,
Giving as much of ardour as it finds."
...
Chief Joseph
(Nez Percé/Nimiipuu leader, c. 1840-1904)
"I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done. Good words do not last long until they amount...
Socrates (c. 469-399 BCE)
"The lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him."
This saying, attributed to Socrates, was recorded in...
