Keshub Chunder Sen (1838–1884) Indian academic
Speech delivered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, London on 24th May 1870. See Education in India for major portion of the speech.
"The Poison Cure", as translated by Gowri Ramnarayan in Kalki : Selected Stories (1999)
Keshub Chunder Sen (1838–1884) Indian academic
Speech delivered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, London on 24th May 1870. See Education in India for major portion of the speech.
Tertullian (155–220) Christian theologian
De Testimonio Animae (The Testimony of the Soul), 6.3 <br class="br"> The Soul's Testimony https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0309.htm <br class="br">Original: (la) Omnium gentium unus homo, uarium nomen est, una anima, uaria uox, unus spiritus, uarius sonus, propria cuique genti loquella, sed loquellae materia communis.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
On Milton (1825)
“Man is one name belonging to every nation upon earth. In them all is one soul though many tongues.”
Omnium gentium unus homo, uarium nomen est, una anima, uaria uox, unus spiritus, uarius sonus, propria cuique genti loquella, sed loquellae materia communis.
Tertullian (155–220) Christian theologian
De Testimonio Animae (The Testimony of the Soul), 6.3
Context: Man is one name belonging to every nation upon earth. In them all is one soul though many tongues. Every country has its own language, yet the subjects of which the untutored soul speaks are the same everywhere.
“…since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.”
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) English clergyman
"Holy Living" (1650) ch. 2, section 6. "Of Contentedness in all Estates".
“There is no evil in the world without a remedy.”
Jacopo Sannazaro (1458–1530) Italian writer
Ecloga Octava; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), "Evil".
Arthur Schopenhauer book Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life
Variant translation: Every nation criticizes every other one — and they are all correct.
As quoted by Wolfgang Pauli in a letter to Abraham Pais (17 August 1950) published in The Genius of Science (2000) by Abraham Pais, p. 242
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to a London Labour Party rally in the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (5 May 1946), quoted in The Times (6 May 1946), p. 3
Prime Minister
“In politics evils should be remedied not revenged.”
Napoleon III (1808–1873) French emperor, president, and member of the House of Bonaparte
Napoléon III, Des Idées napoléoniennes, edited by Henri Colburn, London (1839), chapter 3, p. 39: En politique il faut guérir les maux, jamais les venger.
Translated by James A. Dorr, in: Napoleonic Ideas, Appleton & Co, New York (1859), p. 41