
"An Interview with Mr. John Dos Passos," New York Times, Nov 23 1941
Il n'y a personne qui soit tenu d'être habile; mais il n'y en a point qui ne soit obligé d'être bon.
Aristippe, ou De la cour (1658), Discours VII.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 66.
Il n'y a personne qui soit tenu d'être habile; mais il n'y en a point qui ne soit obligé d'être bon.
"An Interview with Mr. John Dos Passos," New York Times, Nov 23 1941
"The Loveridge Burglary" (1900)
Short stories
Speech on the Federal Constitution, Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)
This has sometimes been paraphrased as "Suspicion is a virtue if it is in the interests of the good of the people".
1780s
Source: REP. PAUL GOSAR ISSUES STATEMENT ON ROE V. WADE ANNIVERSARY https://gosar.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2241 (Washington, DC, January 22, 2013)
Epistola ad Posteros [Letter to Posterity] in Petrarch : The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters (1898) edited by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe, p. 59
“Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?”
Book II, Ch. 12
Attributed
“If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to.”
Source: The Runaway Queen
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook D (1773-1775)