Act IV, scene xi
The Old Bachelor (1693)
“The offender never forgives.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
L'offenseur ne pardonne jamais. http://books.google.com/books?id=uxw20bc2CXMC&q=%22l'offenseur+ne+pardonne+jamais%22&pg=PA51#v=onepage Émile et Sophie, ou Les Solitaires, "Lettre Première" (1781)
“Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book III, Ch. 11. Of Cripples
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.”
Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804) Founding Father of the United States
Essay (12 August 1795)
Daniel Levitin (1957) American psychologist
Talks at Google (Oct 28, 2014)
Context: This mind wandering mode turns out to be very different from the task engagement mode, because it's where thoughts that are loosely connected seamlessly flow into one another like in a dream.... And you begin to see connections between things that you didn't see as connected before.... non-linear kinds of thinking... This is the mode of thinking where your most creative acts are likely to occur and where problem solving is apt to occur.
“3387. Men apt to promise, are apt to forget.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Washington Irving book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
"Rip Van Winkle".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
“Please forgive me for finding something real and pure and trueSomebody is waiting for me”
Juliana Hatfield (1967) American guitarist/singer-songwriter and author
"Somebody Is Waiting For Me"
Beautiful Creature (2000)
Context: I never needed this
I never needed anyone
I meant every word that I said
It's true
I wasn't talking to you And I'm sorry that I must go so soon
Please forgive me for finding something real and pure and trueSomebody is waiting for me
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
