This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Luxury is a remedy much worse than the disease it sets up to cure; or rather it is in itself the greatness of all evils; for every State, great or small: for, in order to maintain all the servants and vagabonds it creates, it brings oppression and ruin on the citizen and the laborer; it is like those scorching winds, which, covering the trees and plants with their devouring insects, deprive useful animals of their subsistence and spread famine and death wherever they blow.
Character | Death | Disease | Greatness | Luxury | Oppression | Order |
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Immortality is the greatness of our being; the scene for attaining the fullness and perfection of our existence.
Character | Existence | Greatness | Immortality | Perfection |
John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury
Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality and aimed at goodness more than greatness.
Character | Greatness | Knowledge | Man | Morality | Practice | Time | Wisdom |
Sam Ervin, fully Samuel James "Sam" Ervin, Jr.
Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is, instead, an inner spiritual strength which enables them to face those storms with hope and serenity. Religious faith has the miraculous power to lift ordinary human beings to greatness in seasons of stress.
Faith | Greatness | Hope | Life | Life | Men | Power | Serenity | Strength | Wisdom |
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
It has always seemed to me that ruthlessness and arrogant self-confidence constitute the indispensable condition for what, when it succeeds, strike us as greatness. And I also believe that one ought to differentiate between greatness of achievement and greatest of personality.
Achievement | Confidence | Greatness | Indispensable | Personality | Ruthlessness | Self | Self-confidence | Wisdom |