This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Remember, when the judgment is weak the prejudice is strong.
The bravery founded on hope of recompense, fear of punishment, experience of success, on rage, or on ignorance of danger, is but common bravery, and does not deserve the name. True bravery proposes a just end; measures the dangers, and meets the result with calmness and unyielding decision.
Bravery | Calmness | Character | Danger | Decision | Experience | Fear | Hope | Ignorance | Punishment | Rage | Recompense | Success |
Periander, aka Periander The Great NULL
If fortune smiles, beware of being exalted; if fortune thunders, beware of being overwhelmed.
Outward judgment often fails, inward justice never.
The savage lives within himself, while social man lives constantly outside himself, and only knows how to live in the opinion of others, so that he seems to receive the consciousness of his own existence merely from the judgment of others concerning him.
Character | Consciousness | Existence | Judgment | Man | Opinion | Receive |
Cardinal de Retz, Jean Francois-Paul de Gondil
Of all passions, fear weakens judgment most.
May those who represent advanced views bear in mind that true wisdom is always joined with mildness, that malice never converts the erring but strengthens him in his attitude, and that it is very unfitting to combat error (so long as this does not assume the aspect of injustice) with the weapons of hatred.