Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
“Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.”
“The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.”
Apothegms (no. 247)
“Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.”
No. 247
Apophthegms (1624)
“A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.”
[The Trial of Henry Kissinger, 2002, 1859846319, 46240330, [E840.8.K58 H58 2001]]
2000s, 2002
“The best of prophets of the future is the past.”
Journal (28 January 1821).
“To have a good memory the first thing you have to do is to trust your memory.”
Jesse W. M. DuMond, Paul Sophus Epstein http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=568&page=147, in Biographical Memoirs V.45, National Academy of Sciences (NAS), published by National Academies Press (1974), ISBN 0-309-02239-8, p. 140
“Liars ought to have good memories.”
Source: Discourses Concerning Government (1689), Ch. 2, Sect. 15; comparable to: "He who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying", Michel de Montaigne, Book i. chap. ix. "Of Liars".
L'auteur de ce Prophète a non seulement le bonheur d'avoir du talent, mais aussi le talent d'avoir du bonheur.
Les soirées de l'orchestre (1852), ch. 5 http://www.hberlioz.com/Writings/SO05.htm; Jacques Barzun (trans.) Evenings with the Orchestra (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) p. 62.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 152.
