“the gravity of a substance depends not on the amount of its weight, but on its nature.”
Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book VII, Chapter VIII, Sec. 3
“Whether a matter is great or small, its importance and weight depend on whose hands it is in.”
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1950s
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(1955) as quoted in Albert Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1997) ed. , p. 388, from The Centennial Symposium in Jerusalem (1979)
John Rey (1583–1645) French chemist
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Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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“Reserve the great matters till the end, and the small matters give at the beginning.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XXI Letters. Personal Records. Dated Notes.
Robert Hall (1764–1831) British Baptist pastor
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 212.
“That great brow
And the spirit-small hand propping it.”
Robert Browning By the Fireside
By the Fireside, xxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.”
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
Denn zu einem großen Manne gehört beides: Kleinigkeiten als Kleinigkeiten, und wichtige Dinge als wichtige Dinge zu behandeln. <br class="br">Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Hamburgische Dramaturgie (1767 - 1769), Vierunddreißigstes Stück Den 25. August 1767 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10055/10055-8.txt <br class="br">Misattributed
“It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.”
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic
Denn zu einem großen Manne gehört beides: Kleinigkeiten als Kleinigkeiten, und wichtige Dinge als wichtige Dinge zu behandeln. <br class="br"> Hamburgische Dramaturgie http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10055/10055-8.txt (1767 - 1769), Vierunddreißigstes Stück Den 25. August 1767