This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Shantananda Saraswathi, fully Swami Shantananda Saraswathi, born Chandrashekar
You sow the seeds of your destiny through the way you think, the way you plan, the way you fantasize, the way you deal with fellow beings.
Lord Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
The perfection of virtue is from... long art and management, self-control.
Art | Character | Control | Perfection | Self | Self-control | Virtue | Virtue | Art |
Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
The aim that comedy has in view is the same as that of the highest destiny of man, and this consists in liberating himself from the influence of violent passions, and taking a calm and lucid survey of all that surrounds him, and also of his own being, and of seeing everywhere occurrence rather than fate or hazard, and ultimately rather smiling at the absurdities than shedding tears and feeling anger at sight of the wickedness of man.
Anger | Character | Comedy | Destiny | Fate | Hazard | Influence | Man | Tears | Wickedness | Fate |
Madeleine Scuderi, also Madeleine de Scudéry, aka Sapho
The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
Character | Temptation | Virtue | Virtue | Temptation |
George Savile, fully Sir George Savile, 1st Marquis of Halifax
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue when men have it whether they will or not.
Character | Crime | Men | Popularity | Virtue | Virtue | Will |
Richard Steele, fully Sir Richard Steele
As for my labors, if they can but wear one impertinence out of human life, destroy a single vice, or give a morning’s cheerfulness to an honest mind - in short, if the world can be but one virtue the better, or in any degree less vicious, or receive from then the smallest addition to their innocent diversions - I shall not think my pains, or indeed my life, to have been spent in vain.
Better | Character | Cheerfulness | Destroy | Impertinence | Life | Life | Mind | Receive | Virtue | Virtue | World | Think |
Richard Steele, fully Sir Richard Steele
The great foundation of civil virtue is self-denial.
Character | Self | Self-denial | Virtue | Virtue |