One great reason why many children abandon themselves wholly to silly sports and trifle away all their time insipidly is because they have found their curiosity baulked and their inquiries neglected.
—John Locke, 1693
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
—George Eliot, 1866He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.
—Emperor Francis Joseph, c. 1850Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
—Albert Einstein, 1931Had Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed.
—Blaise Pascal, 1658The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950We die of comfort and by conflict live.
—May Sarton, 1953Play, wherein persons of condition, especially ladies, waste so much of their time, is a plain instance to me that men cannot be perfectly idle; they must be doing something, for how else could they sit so many hours toiling at that which generally gives more vexation than delight to people whilst they are actually engaged in it?
—John Locke, 1693Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverb