Source: (1776), Book V, Chapter II, Part II, p. 896.
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
Remarks to Count Ciano (11 January 1939) after meeting Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, quoted in Malcolm Muggeridge (ed.), Ciano's Diary, 1939–1943 (1947), pp. 9–10
1930s
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 121
The Book of Disquiet
Original: O império supremo é o do Imperador que abdica de toda a vida normal, dos outros homens, em quem o cuidado da supremacia não pesa como um fardo de jóias.
Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
Source: (1776), Book V, Chapter III, Part V, p. 1032 (Last Page).
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
The Near East (1968), p. 33
General sources
“Reason is immortal, all else mortal.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
As quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Sect. 30, as translated by Robert Drew Hicks (1925); also in The Demon and the Quantum: From the Pythagorean Mystics to Maxwell's Demon (2007) by Robert J. Scully, Marlan O. Scully, p. 11
“Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.”
Pindar (-517–-437 BC) Ancient Greek poet
As quoted in Plato's Gorgias, 484b.
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Si tous sont destinés en naissant à souffrir la violence, c'est là une vérité à laquelle l'empire des circonstances ferme les esprits des hommes.
in The Simone Weil Reader, p. 163
Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941)
“All men are mortal, he tells us, but some are more mortal than others.”
Robert Sheckley book Mindswap
Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 32 (p. 153)
