“Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.”
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure
Source: The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge
“There is nothing better or more necessary than love.”
Note to Stanza 28 part 1
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George Crabbe (1754–1832) English poet, surgeon, and clergyman
Tale xiv, "The Struggles of Conscience". Compare: "'T is better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all", Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxvii.
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“But of all motives, none is better adapted to secure influence and hold it fast than love; nothing is more foreign to that end than fear.”
Omnium autem rerum nec aptius est quicquam ad opes tuendas ac tenendas quam diligi nec alienius quam timeri.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Book II, section 7; translation by Walter Miller
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)
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Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.”
Omnium autem rerum, ex quibus aliquid adquiritur, nihil est agri cultura melius, nihil uberius, nihil dulcius, nihil homine libero dignius.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Book I, section 42. Translation by Cyrus R. Edmonds (1873), p. 73
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“There's nothing better than cake but more cake.”
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“Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.”
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
“There is nothing better than making love under the eyes of the stars.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Non c'è nulla di migliore che far l'amore sotto gli occhi delle stelle.
Source: prevale.net
“Nothing was better for you than humiliation, for there was nothing you felt more deeply.”
Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer
J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 130
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Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
Mussolini in conversation with the Austrian ambassador to Italy in 1932 over the then-predicted rise of Adolf Hitler to power in Germany. As quoted in Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews, Albert S. Lindemann, Cambridge University Press (1997), p. 466
1930s