Truculentus, Act II, scene ii
Truculentus
“An unloving heart can no more understand a love-filled speaker than a German an Italian.”
Henry Suso (1295–1366) Dominican friar and mystic
Quoted in Karl An unloving heart can no more understand a love-filled speaker than a German an Italian Bihlmeyer, Heinrich Seuse. Deutsche Schriften, Stuttgart 1907, p. 199
“A good prescription is still more profitable than an absolution.”
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1751) French physician and philosopher
(c. 1734) in a successful argument to persuade his father that a medical education was preferred. As quoted by Friedrich Albert Lange, History of Materialism and Critique of its Present Importance Tr. Ernest Chester Thomas (1882) 2nd edition, Vol. 2, p. 55. https://books.google.com/books?id=X4pQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA55
William H. McRaven (1955) United States admiral
Open letter to US President Donald Trump (2018)
Context: Dear Mr. President:
Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him.
Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.
“To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.”
Wilson Mizner (1876–1933) American writer
Paul Keating (1944) Australian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia
In Parliament, circa 1992. Cited in Vulgar politics back in vogue http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2003/s1008343.htm, ABC PM, 11 December 2003.
“It is more profitable to be mindful of our own faults than of those of our age.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
“The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.”
David Ricardo (1772–1823) British political economist, broker and politician
Source: The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1821) (Third Edition), Chapter VI, On Profits, p. 73
Ibrahim of Ghazna (1032–1099) sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire
Khwaja Mas'ud bin Sa'd bin Salman:Diwan-i-Salman in Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, Vol. IV, pp. 518 ff.
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Source: 1980s, Evolutionary Economics, 1981, p. 104
