“An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.”
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Ctesiphontem
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Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: To those who are longing for a higher life, who deeply feel the need of religious satisfactions, we suggest that there is a way in which the demands of the head and the heart may be reconciled. Religion is not necessarily allied with dogma, a new kind of faith is possible, based not upon legend and tradition, not upon the authority of any book, but upon the moral nature of man.
Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) Argentine novelist
"El mundo atribuye sus infortunios a las conspiraciones y maquinaciones de grandes malvados. Entiendo que se subestima la estupidez."
Breve diccionario del argentino exquisito, 1978.
George Horne (1730–1792) English churchman, writer and university administrator
Source: The Works of the Right Reverend George Horne, 1809, p. 220 ; As quoted in Allibone (1880)
Henryk Sienkiewicz book Without Dogma
4 August
Without Dogma (1891)
Context: If it be a great misfortune to love another man's wife, be she ever so commonplace, it is an infinitely greater misfortune to love a virtuous woman. There is something in my relations to Aniela of which I never heard or read; there is no getting out of it, no end. A solution, whether it be a calamity or the fulfilment of desire, is something, but this is only an enchanted circle. If she remain immovable and I do not cease loving her, it will be an everlasting torment, and nothing else. And I have the despairing conviction that neither of us will give way.
“To resist him that is set in authority is evil.”
Ptahhotep Ancient Egyptian vizier
Maxim no. 31.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)
“A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.”
Hesiod book Works and Days
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 346.
John Kenneth Galbraith book The Great Crash, 1929
Chapter VIII https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Aftermath II, Section IV, p 154 <br class="br">The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)
Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain
The runic inscription upon the scabbard of Dyrnwyn, correctly read by the bard Taliesin, in Chapter 19
The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968)