
“How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
From interview with Anshul Chaturvedi
“Not everyone is worth listening to.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 33.
“A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter IV, Consolation For Inadequacy, p. 168.
“There may be no good reason for things to be the way they are.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 23.
“Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part;
Nature in him was almost lost in Art.”
To Sir Thomas Hammer on his Edition of Shakespeare.
“The time shall come
When man to man shall be a friend and brother.”
Hope on, hope ever, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).