“Beware
At war
Or at peace,
More people die
Of unenlightened self-interest
Than of any other disease”
Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) American science fiction writer
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Beware
At war
Or at peace,
More people die
Of unenlightened self-interest
Than of any other disease”
Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) American science fiction writer
Kurt Vonnegut book Cat's Cradle
Chapter 124 http://books.google.com/books?id=61W3aGvTVgIC&q=%22Beware+of+the+man+who+works+hard+to+learn+something+learns+it+and+finds+himself+no+wiser+than+before%22&pg=PA281#v=onepage: Frank's Ant Farm <br class="br">Cat's Cradle (1963)
Aldous Huxley book The Perennial Philosophy
Source: The Perennial Philosophy (1945), Chapter VI - Mortification, Non-Attachment, Right Livelihood
“Beware the man of a single book.”
Hominem unius libri timeo. / Timeo hominem unius libri.
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
As quoted by Leonard Sweet, The Greatest Story Never Told http://books.google.gr/books?id=KuTRcjWL91AC&dq=, section: "The Gift of Lyrics", Abingdon Press, 2012<br>Variant: "Beware the man of one book."<br>See also: Homo unius libri <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: I fear the man of a single book.
“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I, line 999–1005. Compare Publius Syrus, Maxim 289, "Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia" ("An over-taxed patience gives way to fierce anger").
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Variant: Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.
Context: Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin’d:
Why am I forc’d, like Heav’n, against my mind,
To make Examples of another Kind?
Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?
Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)