
“[W]e are none of us very good at silence. It says too much.”
Telling the Truth (1977)
The Principles of Success in Literature (1865)
“[W]e are none of us very good at silence. It says too much.”
Telling the Truth (1977)
“We have medicines to make women speak; we have none to make them keep silence.”
Nous avons des remèdes pour faire parler les femmes; nous n'en avons pas pour les faire taire.
La Comédie de celui qui épousa une femme muette [The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife] (1912), Act II, sc. iv
Philosophy : the basics (Fifth Edition, 2013), Introduction
“There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.”
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 362.
“Fortune to many gives too much, enough to none.”
Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.
XII, 10.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)