Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Victor Hugo

Age is no threat to the great men of the mind: with the Dantes and the Michelangelos, to grow older is to grow.

Prosperity |

Victor Hugo

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Peace | Prosperity |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

My anxiety is over. The Guru has cut away my bonds, and I have found eternal peace. Whatever shall be, shall be in the end; so where can pain and pleasure be seen?

Peace | Prosperity | Happiness |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Such is my love for the Lord of the Universe; through perfect good destiny, I have been united with Him.

Harmony | Peace | Prosperity | Will |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Repent for all the wrongs done and resolve not to repeat the mistake; then God will extend His grace.

Attainment | Prosperity |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Mind is a double edged sword. It has immense power and it is capable of accomplishing both useful and destructive feats.

Life | Life | Peace | Prosperity |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

One, who does not cast evil eyes on her 'own' house... who does not have malevolence towards her husband... giver of joy...seeker of family's welfare... who treads on the righteous path... gives happiness to all... serves all... gives birth to good sons... keeps her brother-in-laws satisfied and gives nourishing food...May such a wife help us attain prosperity.

Knowledge | Prosperity | Wishes | Happiness |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

A weak man can never achieve success in his life.

Peace | Prosperity | Blessed |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

We should always be ready to work diligently.

Death | Life | Life | Power | Prosperity | Strength | Happiness |

Upton Sinclair, fully Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery

Association | Chance | Life | Life | Little | Men | Prosperity | Association |

Václav Havel

What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how, and to whom to say things.

Experience | Knowledge | Life | Life | Nothing | Prosperity | Will | Learn |

Valmiki NULL

Once Rama gives his word, that is final and it is kept at any cost. There is no question of repetition of the same a second time.

Giving | Joy | Life | Life | Nothing | Prosperity |

Tryon Edwards

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Grief | Prosperity |

Tryon Edwards

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

Nothing | Prosperity |

Thucydides NULL

The freaks of chance are not determinable by calculation.

Adversity | Decision | Fate | Fortune | Good | Lesson | Mankind | People | Power | Prosperity | Reason | Success | Truth | War | Fate |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Argument | Better | Honesty | Men | Motives | Prosperity | Think | Understand |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

Famous | Prosperity |

William Shakespeare

Boldness be my friend! Arm me, audacity, from head to foot! Cymbeline, Act I, Scene 6

Adversity | Death |