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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Cyril Connolly, fully Cyril Vernon Connolly

We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

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Fear | Hate | Man | Noise | Wisdom | Child |

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Edward Coke, fully Sir Edward Coke

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason.

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Law | Life | Life | Nothing | Reason | Wisdom |

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Ilya Ehrenburg, fully Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg

I have come to hate war not only because it kills off the flower of every nation, but because it destroys spiritual as well as material values.

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Hate | War | Wisdom |

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Thomas Dreier

To hate is to be enslaved by evil.

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Evil | Hate | Wisdom |

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Albert Einstein

Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.

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Cause | Force | Hope | Law | Peace | Religion | Wisdom | Zeal |

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James "Jim" L. Foster

Retribution is one of the grand principles in the divine administration of human affairs; a requital is imperceptible only to the willfully unobservant. There is everywhere the working of the everlasting law of requital; man always gets as he gives.

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Administration | Law | Man | Principles | Wisdom |

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Euripedes NULL

There is nothing more hostile to a city than a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway and this is no longer equal.

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Law | Man | Nothing | Wisdom |

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Felix Frankfurter

If facts are changing, law cannot be static.

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Law | Wisdom |

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Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

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Imagination | Law | Nature | Truth | Wisdom |

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Edwin Bradford Hall

Remember you have not a sinew whose law of strength is not action; not a faculty of body, mind, or soul, whose law of improvement is not energy.

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Action | Body | Energy | Improvement | Law | Mind | Soul | Strength | Wisdom |

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Hubert Humphrey, fully Hubert Horatio Humphrey

There are not enough jails, nor enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

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Enough | Law | People | Wisdom |

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Aldous Leonard Huxley

The law of diminishing returns holds good in almost every part of our human universe.

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Good | Law | Universe | Wisdom |

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Richard Hooker

Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is thy bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things do her homage, the very least as feeling her care; and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.

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Angels | Care | God | Harmony | Joy | Law | Men | Mother | Peace | Power | Wisdom | World |

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