Giovanni Boccaccio (c. 1313-1375)
"I maintain that if one conducts one's life virtuously, there is no reason to be afraid of any dream that encourages...
The Thousand and One Nights
(a large collection of anonymously-authored stories of Indian, Persian and Arabian origin, compiled and edited between the 9th and 15th...
Machiavelli (c. 1469-1527)
"There are three different kinds of brains, the one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (c. 1712-1778)
"Beware particularly, as the last piece of advice I shall give you, of sinister constructions and venomous rumours, the secret motives...
Immanuel Kant (c. 1724-1804)
"Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good without qualification, except...
Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BCE)
"The reach for power can recoil,
the bolt of god can strike you at a glance."
From Aeschylus’ Agamemnon (approximately lines 460-465),...
Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BCE)
"God does as god decrees.
And still some say
that heaven would never stoop to punish men
who trample the lovely grace of things
untouchable....
Lucan (c. 39-65)
"Where does the miserable fate
of our empire not find civil war?"
From Lucan’s Civil War (Book 10, approximately between lines 410-433), translated...
James Madison (c. 1751-1836)
"A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an...
Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BCE)
"...for those who flocked to war
they are holding back the anguish now,
you can feel it rising now in every house;
I tell...
James Madison (c. 1751-1836)
"A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an...
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321)
"The bad state of the modern world is due—
as you may see, then—to bad leadership;
and not to natural corruption in you."
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