“If thy fellows hurt thee in small things, suffer it! and be as bold with them!”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
“Small minds are hurt by the smallest things”
Les petits esprits sont blessés des plus petites choses <br class="br">Maxime 34 from the 1705 Amsterdam edition https://books.google.com/books?id=pBJgAAAAcAAJ&q=%22des+plus+petites+choses%22#v=snippet&q=%22des%20plus%20petites%20choses%22&f=false <br class="br">Later Additions to the Maxims
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“The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
1778
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“The greatest thing in the small compass is a sound mind in a human body.”
Isocrates (-436–-338 BC) ancient greek rhetorician
Verse 40.
To Demonicus
Context: The greatest thing in the small compass is a sound mind in a human body. Strive with all your body to be a lover of toil, and with your soul to be a lover of wisdom, in order that with the one you may have the strength to carry out your resolves, and with the other the intelligence to foresee what is for your good.
Iris Murdoch book The Philosopher's Pupil
The Philosopher's Pupil (1983) p. 76.
Context: The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick or a self-destroying or even murderous obsession. Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
Galileo Galilei book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)
