Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
Façade of Democracy (1991)
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“3866. Penny-wise, and Pound-foolish.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
The Three Sources and Three Constituent Parts of Marxism (March 1913)
1910s
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Speech on Reform of Representation in the House of Commons (7 May 1782)
1780s
Epifanio de los Santos (1871–1928) Filipino politician
As quoted in “Don Pañong – Genius" by A.V.H. Hartendorp in Philippine Magazine (September 1929), p. 211.
ULOL
“For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.”
Malcolm Lowry book Under the Volcano
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. III (p. 75)
“Only the foolish learn from experience - the wise learn from the experience of others.”
Rolf Hochhuth (1931) german writer
Nur der Dumme lernt aus Erfahrung, der Kluge aus der Erfahrung der anderen!
Alan Turing