Great Throughts Treasury

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Eugenio Montale

The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the traces of the past. We run too fast, but we still do not move enough. He looks but he does not contemplate, he sees but he does not think. He runs away from time, which is made of thought, and yet all he can feel is his own time, the present.

Individual | Life | Life | Solitude |

Euripedes NULL

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Aid | Care | Health | Man | Wealth |

Eugenio Montale

The man of the future will be born equipped with a brain and a nervous system quite different from those we have we, human yet traditional, Copernican, classics.

Fighting | Man | Unhappiness |

Euripedes NULL

I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity.

Fate | Power | Fate |

Eugenio Montale

And then you hear, even if you repeat as you can, stop midway or high sea , that there is no stopping for us, but the road, still the road, and that the journey is always to start over.

Civilization |

Euripedes NULL

No one who goes against her can win.

People |

Eugenio Montale

I love athletics because it is poetry If the night dream, dream to be a marathon runner.

Art | People | Truth | Art |

Eustace Budgell

We see by these instances what homage the world has formerly paid to beards; and that a barber was not then allowed to make those depredations on the faces of the learned which have been permitted him of late years.

Behavior | Body | Folly | Little | Love | Man | Memory | Past | Power | Time |

Eustace Budgell

The beard, conformable to the notion of my friend Sir Roger, was for many ages looked upon as the type of wisdom. Lucian more than once rallies the philosophers of his time, who endeavored to rival one another in beards; and represents a learned man who stood for a professorship in philosophy, as unqualified for it by the shortness of his beard.

Business | Little | Love | Wife | Engagement | Business |

Evelyn Underhill

Living in the present means squarely accepting and responding to it as God's moment for you now while it is called "today" rather than wishing it were yesterday or tomorrow.

Absolute | Beginning | Language | Love | Mysticism | Philosophy | Truth |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house.

Cause | Death | Life | Life | Man | People | Public |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

Absurd | People |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

Chance | Family | Impulse | Nature | People |