“Nothing breaks more quickly than corroded steel.”
Book One, Part III “The Crimson Palace”, Chapter 6 (p. 155)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)
“And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ecce homo
"Why I Am So Wise", 6
Ecce Homo (1888)
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“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.”
Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Honoré de Balzac
(1799–1850) French writer
Les idées dévorent les siècles comme les hommes sont dévorés par leurs passions. Quand l'homme sera guéri, l'humanité se guérira peut-être.
Source: About Catherine de' Medici (1842), Part II: The Ruggieri's Secret, Ch. V: The Alchemists.
Source: The Darkness That Comes Before
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
Thomas Aquinas
(1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Aphra Behn
(1640–1689) British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer
The History of Agnes de Castro, or the Force of Generous Love (1688).
XVIII. 130–131 (tr. Robert Fagles). Cf. Iliad, XVII. 446–447.
Samuel Butler's translation:
: Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth.
Robert Fitzgerald's translation:
: Of mortal creatures, all that breathe and move,
earth bears none frailer than mankind.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Variant: Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
Source: The Iliad