The Man Who Laughs (1869)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer
'La Fère of Cursed Memory', 15th vignette of An Inland Voyage (1878), in Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/8026833953, Stevenson, e-artnow (2015)
“Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?”
Thomas Hobbes book Leviathan
The Third Part, Chapter 43, p. 330
Leviathan (1651)
“It is an imprudence common to kings
To listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.”
Pierre Corneille The Death of Pompey
C'est une imprudence assez commune aux rois
D'écouter trop d'avis et se tromper au choix.
Ptolomée, act IV, scene i.
La Mort de Pompée (The Death of Pompey) (1642)
“As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.”
Pierre Corneille book Le Cid
Pour grands que soient les rois, ils sont ce que nous sommes:
Ils peuvent se tromper comme les autres hommes.
Don Gomès, act I, scene iii.
Le Cid (1636)
“Those who knowingly allow the King to err deserve the same punishment as traitors.”
Alfonso X of Castile (1221–1284) King of Castile
Los que dejan al rey errar a sabiendas, merecen pena como traidores.
Quoted in Diccionario ilustrado de frases célebres y citas literarias (1952), by Vicente Vega.
Posidonius (-135–-51 BC) ancient greek philosopher
As quoted in Epistulae morales ad Lucilium by Seneca, Epistle CXIII (trans. R. M. Gummere)
Frances Wright (1795–1852) American activist
Address III, Delivered at the opening of the Hall of Science, New York, Sunday, April 26, 1829
A Course of Popular Lectures (1829)
P.T. Barnum (1810–1891) American showman and businessman
Source: The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money
Martin Buber (1878–1965) German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian
"Power and Love" (1926)
Context: p> Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.We cannot avoid
Using power,
Cannot escape the compulsion
To afflict the world,
So let us, cautious in diction
And mighty in contradiction,
Love powerfully.</p
“Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
"On True Happiness", Pennsylvania Gazette (20 November 1735).
1730s
