“Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison. ”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 251.
“Fear was like poison to mortals; it killed their rationality.”
Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 16 (p. 407)
“I can’t name the poison that’s killing your friend. But the one that’s killing you is called hope.”
Source: The Republic of Thieves
“Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,
With whom revenge is virtue.”
The Revenge, Act V, sc. ii.
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 312
As quoted by General Sir Charles Fergusson in a memorandum (10 July 1945), recalling conversations with Adenauer in 1918-1919, at the end of World War I. As published in Adenauer : The Father of the New Germany (2000) by Charles Williams, p. 293 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=7mhpKYpugJsC&pg=PA293
