“A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil. ”
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
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Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 2, hadith number 237
Sunni Hadith
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
1880s, Garfield's Words (1882)
Washington Gladden (1836–1918) American pastor
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 594.
Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824–1895) French writer and dramatist, son of the homonym writer and dramatist
On peut devenir un peintre, un sculpteur, un musicien même à force d'étude; on ne devient pas un auteur dramatique. On l'est tout de suite ou jamais, comme on est blond ou brun, sans le vouloir.
Preface to Le Père Prodigue (1859), in Théatre complet de Al. Dumas fils (Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1868-98) vol. 3, p. 199; translation by E. P. Evans from The Atlantic Monthly, May 1890, pp. 584-5.
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?”
Don Marquis (1878–1937) American writer
“Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Alternate translation: Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
Тогда человек станет лучше, когда вы покажете ему, каков он есть…
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
