“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love…”
Book I, ch. x
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
9 May 1830
Table Talk (1821–1834)
“More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.”
A: Quod est enim maius argumentum nihil eam prodesse quam quosdam perfectos philosophos turpiter vivere?
M: Nullum vero id quidem argumentum est. Nam ut agri non omnes frugiferi sunt qui coluntur [...] sic animi non omnes culti fructum ferunt. Atque, ut in eodem simili verser, ut ager quamvis fertilis sine cultura fructuosus esse non potest, sic sine doctrina animus; ita est utraque res sine altera debilis. Cultura autem animi philosophia est; haec extrahit vitia radicitus et praeparat animos ad satus accipiendos eaque mandat eis et, ut ita dicam, serit, quae adulta fructus uberrimos ferant.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
(-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Book II, Chapter V; translation by Andrew P. Peabody
Tusculanae Disputationes – Tusculan Disputations (45 BC)
Context: A: For what stronger proof can there be of its [philosophy's] uselessness than that some accomplished philosophers lead disgraceful lives?
M: It is no proof at all; for as all cultivated fields are not harvest-yielding [... ] so all cultivated minds do not bear fruit. To continue the figure – as a field, though fertile, cannot yield a harvest without cultivation, no more can the mind without learning; thus each is feeble without the other. But philosophy is the cultivation of the soul. It draws out vices by the root, prepares the mind to receive seed, and commits to it, and, so to speak, sows in it what, when grown, may bear the most abundant fruit.
“The world in all doth but two nations bear —
The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.”
Andrew Marvell
(1621–1678) English metaphysical poet and politician
The Loyal Scot (1650-1652).
John Adams
(1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
John Adams letter to John Taylor, Of Caroline, Quincy, (12 March, 1819)
1810s, Letter to John Taylor (1819)
Nicolas Chamfort
(1741–1794) French writer
Le bon goût, le tact et le bon ton, ont plus de rapport que n'affectent de le croire les Gens de Lettres. Le tact, c'est le bon goût appliqué au main- tien et à la conduite; le bon ton, c'est le bon goût appliqué aux discours et à la conversation.
Maximes et Pensées, #427
Maxims and Considerations, #427
Roy Jenkins
(1920–2003) British politician, historian and writer
Letter to The Times (23 July 1956), p. 9
1950s
Source: An Experiment in Love