Musæus of Hero and Leander; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.”
“Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.”
As quoted in Meyer Berger’s New York (1960)
“Literature is most social when it is least social.”
Source: Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty and Western Culture (2007), p. 62
“It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.”
Book XXX, sec. 30
History of Rome
“What is promised to you in dreams is given to you in dreams!”
“A child needs your love most when he deserves it least”
“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
“Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.”
Source: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974), Chapter 10, p. 272.
