“I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.”
Book 1, Ch.5.
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ancient Greek historian, often considered as the first hist… -484–-425 BCRelated quotes
“The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent.”
Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.
Quintus Curtius Rufus Roman historian
IV, 14, 20.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IV
David Cameron (1966) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
2010s, 2015, Speech on (20 July 2015)
G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
Vyasa central and revered figure in most Hindu traditions
Vyasa's advise to the Pandavas, his grandsons who were staying in the forest. Quoted in p. 49.
Sources, Seer of the Fifth Veda: Kr̥ṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa in the Mahābhārata
“I know I will never be happy but I know I can be gay!”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
As quoted in a letter to her psychiatrist, Dr. Greenson, in 1961. Fragments, by Stanley Buchthal and Bernard Comment (2010)
Manal al-Sharif (1979) Saudi Arabian activist
About lifting of the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia. As quoted in Saudi women 'still enslaved', says activist as driving ban ends http://news.trust.org/item/20180622172634-f882k/ (22 June 2018) by Heba Kanso, Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Angelina Grimké (1805–1879) American abolitionist and feminist
Addressing an abolitionist meeting in Philadelphia, May 14, 1838, as a mob howled outside, throwing bricks and stones into the building, as quoted in [Todras, Ellen H., Angelina Grimké: Voice of Abolition, https://books.google.com/books?id=-S8ZAQAAMAAJ, 1999, Linnet, 978-0-208-02485-5, 3]
Max Pechstein (1881–1955) German artist
as quoted by de:Wolf-Dieter Dube, in Expressionism, de:Wolf-Dieter Dube; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 89
