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writer and salonist 1876–1972Related quotes
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Sec. 191
The Gay Science (1882)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Speech at Kennedy Plaza, Providence, Rhode Island (23 August 1902), Presidential Addresses and State Papers (1910), p. 103. <!-- Mem. Ed. XVIII, 76; Nat. Ed. XVI, 64 -->
1900s
Context: Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
But there is another harm; and it is evident that we should try to do away with that. The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.
Peter de Noronha (1897–1970) Indian businessman
The Pageant of Life (1964), On Anger
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
Letter to Robert Bridges (15 February 1879)
Letters, etc
“My dignity asks him who does me no harm to do me no harm. Of him who harms me it asks nothing.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Mi dignidad le pide a quien no me hace daño que no me haga daño, y a quien me hace daño no le pide nada.
Voces (1943)
“Gambling is the contraction of all vices into one.”
Francisco Luís Gomes (1829–1869) Indo-Portuguese physician, writer, historian, economist, political scientist and MP in the Portuguese parli…
Os Brâmanes, p. 53
Os Brâmanes (1866)
“This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
“In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.”
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Quintana of Charyn
“Buying books is probably my biggest vice”
Katie Melua (1984) British singer-songwriter
Context: Buying books is probably my biggest vice when I travel. I bought a great one in America called An Incomplete Education, which covers everything from fashion to philosophy in quite a humorous way. It’s a bluffer’s guide, but pretty extensive. Because I never went to university, it’s my attempt to bone up on subjects I don’t know much about.