“A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil. ”
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 2, hadith number 237
Sunni Hadith
1880s, Garfield's Words (1882)
Source: The God of Small Things
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 594.
On peut devenir un peintre, un sculpteur, un musicien même à force d'étude; on ne devient pas un auteur dramatique. On l'est tout de suite ou jamais, comme on est blond ou brun, sans le vouloir.
Preface to Le Père Prodigue (1859), in Théatre complet de Al. Dumas fils (Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1868-98) vol. 3, p. 199; translation by E. P. Evans from The Atlantic Monthly, May 1890, pp. 584-5.
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?”
“Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.”
Alternate translation: Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
Тогда человек станет лучше, когда вы покажете ему, каков он есть…
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch. 8 "The Time of Transition"
