Jerome K. Jerome book Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
"On Vanity and Vanities".
Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”
" The Problem of Increasing Human Energy http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1900-06-00.htm", Century Illustrated Magazine (June 1900)
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Friedrich Nietzsche book Twilight of the Idols
Twilight of the Idols (1888)
Context: How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which must be overcome, by the effort [Mühe] it costs to remain on top. The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude. This is true psychologically if by "tyrants" are meant inexorable and dreadful instincts that provoke the maximum of authority and discipline against themselves — most beautiful type: Julius Caesar —; this is true politically too; one need only go through history. The nations which were worth something, became worth something, never became so under liberal institutions: it was great danger that made something of them that merits respect. Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit — and forces us to be strong...
“Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
As quoted in Queers in History : The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays (2009), by Keith Stern, p. 465.
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2009, Farewell speech to the nation (January 2009)
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William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
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Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Presidential debate with Jimmy Carter (28 October 1980)
1980s
