Book 1, part 1, as translated by James Legge in The Life and Works of Mencius (1875), p. 124<!--. Variant translation:
Once [Mencius] visited a king, and the king asked him, "Old teacher, how can my country profit from your presence?" Mencius immediately replied, "Why do you speak of profit, sire? Isn't there also the sense of mercy and the sense of right?"
As translated by Lin Yutang in From Pagan to Christian (1959), p. 90-->
The Mencius
Context: Mencius went to see King Huei of Liang. The king said, "Venerable sir, since you have not counted it far to come here, a distance of a thousand li, may I presume that you are provided with counsels to profit my kingdom?" Mencius replied, "Why must your Majesty use that word 'profit'? What I am provided with, are counsels to benevolence and righteousness, and these are my only topics."
about the theory of general relativity, in a letter dated November 24, 1919, to Albert Einstein.
In a letter to Emperor Charles V, from Venice, 5 Oct, 1544; copied in the 'Archives of Simancas' by Mr. Bergenroth; as quoted by J.A.Y. Crowe & G.B. Cavalcaselle in Titian his life and times - With some account... Volume II, publisher John Murray, London, 1877, p. 103
This letter is written by Titian himself - free from the polite style of his secretary/friend Arentino; he is telling the Emperor that he had finished two portraits of the Empress Isabella, he painted after her death after a probably Flemish original. The two portraits were sent to the court in Brussels.
1541-1576
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titian#/media/File:Isabella_of_Portugal_by_Titian.jpg
“The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.”
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 5, "Sea Dreams"
The Freudian Unconscious and Ours
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho Analysis (1978)
“I am an autodidact - that's why I use bigger words than I should. It's a classic sign.”
Guardian interview (2008)
“I have nothing to say on any historical topic.”
Girl, Interrupted (1994)
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.1 The Historical Roots of Christianity the Hebrew Prophets, p. 9
“If an action … involves little profit but much righteousness, do it.”
Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (2001), p. 263
"Cultivating oneself"
Prologue (p. 8)
Nifft the Lean (1982)
“Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.”
