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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Abigail Van Buren, pen name for Pauline Phillips and now daughter Jeanne Phillips

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Character | Good | People |

Aeschylus NULL

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Character | Envy | Friend | Honor | Men |

Adam Smith

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

Man | Price | Wants | Trouble |

Aeschylus NULL

How rare, men with the character to praise a friend’s success without a trace of envy.

Character | Envy | Friend | Men | Praise | Success |

Adrienne Rich, fully Adrienne Cecil Rich

The unconscious wants the truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

Truth | Wants |

Aesop NULL

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Tomorrow | Wants |

Alfred North Whitehead

Your character is developed according to your faith. This is the primary religious truth from which no one can escape.

Character | Faith | Truth |

Alexis Carrel

Success in marriage requires continence as well as potency. In other words, character is indispensable in well-ordered sexual life.

Character | Indispensable | Life | Life | Marriage | Success | Words |

Alfred North Whitehead

The common character of all evil is that its realization in fact involves that there is some concurrent realization of a purpose towards elimination. The purpose is to secure the avoidance of evil. The fact of the instability of evil is the moral order in the world.

Character | Evil | Instability | Order | Purpose | Purpose | World |

Alexander von Humboldt

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take way with us.

Character | Life | Life |

Aristotle NULL

If thinking is perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.

Character | Mind | Object | Sense | Soul | Thinking | Thought |

Aristippus NULL

It is better to be a beggar than ignorant; for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity.

Better | Humanity | Money | Wants |