Book I, satire i, line 48
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
What Does the Working Man Want? (speech), Louisville, KY (May 1890)
Bk. II, ch. 1.
The History of Henry Esmond (1852)
Source: The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.
Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
Context: A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself. A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
“A man may own a thousand acres of land, and yet he still sleeps upon a bed of five feet.”
Source: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 38 (Chinese saying)
III, lines 234-242, John Dryden, trans.
Satires, Satire III
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, the man who never reads lives only one.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons. Jojen
“An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.”
Life Without Principle (1863)
Context: The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man. You may raise money enough to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business. An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.
