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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Eugenio Montale

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

Beginning | Desire | Life | Life | Meaning | Myth | Question |

Eugenio Montale

Poets is useless to ask for the understanding of certain things

Art | Art |

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One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

Abuse | Age | Death | Lying | Old age | Old |

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Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.

Justice | Law | Sorrow | Vengeance | Will |

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Let them that are happy talk of piety; he that would work his adversary woe must take no account of laws.

Glory | Life | Life | Think | Understand |

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When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

Generosity | God | Need | God |

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No one who goes against her can win.

People |

Eugenio Montale

Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.

Poetry | Will |

Eustace Budgell

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship, which always is imperfect where either of these two is wanting.

Envy | Esteem | Man | Nothing | Observation | Search | Will |

Evan Esar

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

Eugenio Montale

His natural gift is to see without being seen and to be present as it can be a fact or rather a gift of nature. [ Sergio Solmi ]

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Happy | Life | Life |

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No one who lives in error is free.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Deeds | Friend | Nothing | Time | Deeds |