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American author, printer, political theorist, politician, p… 1706–1790Related quotes
“Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.”
Pythagoras, as quoted in Treasury of Thought : Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1894) by Maturin Murray Ballou
Misattributed
“Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.”
As quoted in Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1894) by Maturin Murray Ballou
“Society waits unformed and is between things ended and things begun.”
Thoughts, 1
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Et del mio vaneggiar vergogna è 'l frutto,
e 'l pentersi, e 'l conoscer chiaramente
che quanto piace al mondo è breve sogno.
Canzone 1, st. 4
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
“If well thou hast begun, go on fore-right
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.”
"The End".
Hesperides (1648)
"Lines Written in Dejection on the Eve of Great Success
1960s
“The whole world would have been destroyed if compassion did not put an end to anger.”
Perierat totus orbis, nisi iram finiret misericordia.
Book I, Chapter I; slightly modified translation from Michael Winterbottom, Declamations of the Elder Seneca (London: Heinemann, 1974) vol. 1 p. 33
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