1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
“He was proud, like all lonely men. Lonely men must be proud or die.”
"The Arimaspin Legacy" (1987), first appeared as a Winter Solstice chapbook from Cheap Street, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005)
Fiction
General Security: The Liquidation of Opium (1925)
Letter to W. W. Norton, 17 February, 1931
1930s
Ce sont les hommes qui n'aiment pas les femmes qui s'intéressent à la toilette des femmes. Et les hommes qui aiment les femmes ne voient pas seulement comment elles sont habillées.
Histoire contemporaine: L'anneau d'améthyste (1899)
Ibid., p. 266
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Irrita-me a felicidade de todos estes homens que não sabem que são infelizes.[...] Por isto, contudo, amo-os a todos. Meus queridos vegetais!
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
“It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.”
As quoted in American Heritage (December 1955), p. 44
Context: I disagree with my brother Charles and Theodore Roosevelt. I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously. These facts have nothing to do with the case and should not have been allowed to interfere with just penalties. It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.
“Those who fear men like laws.”
Réflexions (1746).
Variant: Those who fear men love the laws.
