“To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.”
James Howell (1594–1666) Anglo-Welsh historian and writer
English Proverbs (1659)
“Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.”
"Canzone 11 [c. 1327]", as reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1968), p. 163
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
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Italian scholar and poet 1304–1374Related quotes
“Who mourns makes grief his master.
Who drinks makes pleasure his master.”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Classical Japanese Database, Translation #41 http://carlsensei.com/classical/index.php/translation/view/41 of a Saga Diary excerpt (Translation: Robert Hass) <br class="br">Statements <br class="br">Context: It rains during the morning. No visitors today. I feel lonely and amuse myself by writing at random. These are the words:<br>Who mourns makes grief his master.<br>Who drinks makes pleasure his master.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1930s, Fireside Chat in the night before signing the Fair Labor Standards (1938)
Context: In nine cases out of ten the speaker or writer who, seeking to influence public opinion, descends from calm argument to unfair blows hurts himself more than his opponent.
The Chinese have a story on this — a story based on three or four thousand years of civilization: Two Chinese coolies were arguing heatedly in the midst of a crowd. A stranger expressed surprise that no blows were being struck. His Chinese friend replied: "The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out."
“Yet all does the sire himself ruthlessly condemn to the murky flames, and bid his own signs of rank be borne withal, if by their loss he may sate his devouring grief.”
Cuncta ignibus atris
damnat atrox suaque ipse parens gestamina ferri,
si damnis rabidum queat exaturare dolorem.
Source: Thebaid, Book VI, Line 81 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
“He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Attributed
“The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.”
Karl Barth (1886–1968) Swiss Protestant theologian
Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918) American politician
Source: Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1915), p. 59