VII. 216–218 (tr. P. S. Worsley).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Οὐ γάρ τι στυγερῇ ἐπὶ γαστέρι κύντερον ἄλλο ἔπλετο, ἥ τ' ἐκέλευσεν ἕο μνήσασθαι ἀνάγκῃ καὶ μάλα τειρόμενον καὶ ἐνὶ φρεσὶ πένθος ἔχοντα.
Source: Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World (2011), p. 242
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 85e
The Fireside, stanza 3, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Natural History of Intellect (1893)
“To have no food for our heads no food for our hearts, no food for our activity, is that nothing?”
Cassandra (1860)
Context: To have no food for our heads no food for our hearts, no food for our activity, is that nothing? If we have no food for the body, how do we cry out, how all the world hears of it, how all the newspapers talk of it, with a paragraph headed in great capital letters, DEATH FROM STARVATION! But suppose one were to put a paragraph in the Times, Death of Thought from Starvation, or Death of Moral Activity from Starvation, how people would stare, how they would laugh and wonder! One would think we had no heads nor hearts, by the total indifference of the public towards them. Our bodies are the only things of any consequence.
1910s, The New Nationalism (1910)
Context: I believe in shaping the ends of government to protect property as well as human welfare. Normally, and in the long run, the ends are the same; but whenever the alternative must be faced, I am for men and not for property, as you were in the Civil War. I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends; but I rank dividends below human character. Again, I do not have any sympathy with the reformer who says he does not care for dividends. Of course, economic welfare is necessary, for a man must pull his own weight and be able to support his family. I know well that the reformers must not bring upon the people economic ruin, or the reforms themselves will go down in the ruin. But we must be ready to face temporary disaster, whether or not brought on by those who will war against us to the knife. Those who oppose reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.
“Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.”
No. 15.
Maxims and Moral Sentences
“…nothing will make us so tender and indulgent to the faults of others as a view of our own.”
L'humilité produit le support d'autrui. La vue seule de nos misères peut nous rendre compatissants et indulgents pour celles d'autrui
Œuvres complètes de François de Salignac de La Mothe Fénelon http://www.passtheword.org/DIALOGS-FROM-THE-PAST/innerlife.htm.
“There is nothing an official hates more than a person who makes up his own mind.”
Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (2006)
