As quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007) by James Geary, p. 271
Adolph Freiherr Knigge book Über den Umgang mit Menschen
Keine Verbindungen pflegen dauerhafter zu sein als die, welche in der frühen Jugend geschlossen werden. Man ist da noch weniger misstrauisch, weniger schwierig in Kleinigkeiten.
Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Harijan (24 February 1946). As quoted in The Politics Of Nonviolent Action, Gene Sharp, Porter Sargent Publishers (1973), p. 59
1940s
“Youth's the season made for joys,
Love is then our duty.”
John Gay (1685–1732) English poet and playwright
Act II, sc. iv, air 22
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881–1954) German general during World War II
To Leon Goldensohn (25 June 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews", Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellatel (2004).
“With the troubled eyes of a youth
I envied
Birds flying—
Flying they sang.”
Takuboku Ishikawa (1886–1912) Japanese writer
A Handful of Sand ("Ichiaku no Suna"), as translated by Shio Sakanishi
“Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive from what ills you are free yourself is pleasant.”
Suave mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis
e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem;
non quia vexari quemquamst jucunda voluptas,
sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suave est.
Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher
Book II, lines 1–4 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Seishirō Itagaki (1885–1948) Japanese general
Quoted in "Red Star Over Malaya" - Page 130 - by Boon Kheng Cheah - History - 2003.
Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) American historian
Letter to the Editor, in The New York Times (1971)
