Great Throughts Treasury

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Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

Men |

Euripedes NULL

Who knows that 'tis not life which we call death, and death our life on earth?

Death | Life | Life | Men |

Eustace Budgell

In short, a private education seems the most natural method for the forming of a virtuous man; a public education for making a man of business. The first would furnish out a good subject for PlatoÂ’s republic, the latter a member for a community overrun with artifice and corruption.

Education | Means | Men | Nothing | Order | Reason | Service | Temper | Think |

Eugenio Montale

You do not remember the house of the customs officers from the upward overhanging the cliff: desolate awaits you from the night when entered it the swarm of your thoughts restless and stopped there.

Men | Position | Power | Victim |

Euripedes NULL

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

Despair | Men |

Eugenio Montale

Back to event the sun and the widespread voices, not the usual noises door.

Culture | Men | Friends |

Euripedes NULL

Come, God -- Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus -- burst into life, burst into being, be a mighty bull, a hundred-headed snake, a fire-breathing lion. Burst into smiling life, oh Bacchus!

Men | Rule |

Euripedes NULL

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

Hope | Men |

Euripedes NULL

Go home to your wife. Go bury her.

Hope | Men |

Euripedes NULL

Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.

Enough | Men |

Euripedes NULL

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

Men |

Euripedes NULL

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

Heart | Men | Mind | Wise | Think |

Euripedes NULL

Very good to be rich, very good to be strong, but even better to be loved ones a lot of friends.

Eternal | Men | Race |

Euripedes NULL

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

Men |

Euripedes NULL

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Force | Men | Mistake | Rule |

Euripedes NULL

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

Men |

Euripedes NULL

The conflict of patience is such, that the vanquished is better than the vanquisher.

Better | Men | Wealth |

Euripedes NULL

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Good | Men |

Eugenio Maria de Hostos (y Bonilla)

If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you. When you cannot be just because of your nature, be so through your pride.

Feelings | Freedom | Future | Intelligence | Love | Men | Order | Problems | Will |