Great Throughts Treasury

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Hacaton of Rhodes, also Hecato of Rhodes NULL

I will reveal to you a love potion, without medicine, without herbs, without any witches magic: if you want to be loved, then love.

Love | Magic | Will | Wisdom |

Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855) and his brother Augustus William Hare

Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.

Friend | Love | Wisdom | Afraid |

Hermetica NULL

God then, is the source of all things; the Aeon is the power of God; and the work of the Aeon is the Kosmos which never came into being, but is ever coming into being, by the action of the Aeon, and that which olds the universe together is the Aeon.

Action | God | Power | Universe | Wisdom | Work |

Hafiz, pen name of Shams-ud-din Muhammad NULL

O you who would learn the marvels of Love from the copybook of reason, I am afraid that you will never really see the point.

Love | Reason | Will | Wisdom | Afraid | Learn |

Ernest Hello

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

Love | Men | Wisdom |

Heinrich Heine

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, flowers, water and love. Of course, if the spectator be without the last, the whole will present but a pitiful appearance; and, in that case, the sun is merely so many miles in diameter, the trees are good for fuel, the flowers are classified by stamens, and the water is simply wet.

Appearance | Good | Love | Means | Nature | Present | Will | Wisdom |

Sidney Greenberg

War determines not who is right but who is left.

Right | War | Wisdom |

A. C. Harwood

There is one type of feeling which is above all important to foster in childhood. Children have naturally an abundant faculty for wonder and reverence. There are so many books, so many radio and television hours, so many encyclopedias and, alas, so many teachers whose aim is to import knowledge quickly and easily without any element of that faculty which the Greeks said was the beginning of philosophy – Wonder. It is strange that an age which has discovered so many marvels in the universe should be so conspicuously lacking in the sense of wonder.

Age | Beginning | Books | Childhood | Children | Important | Knowledge | Philosophy | Reverence | Sense | Television | Universe | Wisdom | Wonder |

Germaine Greer

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when the right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

Right | Wisdom |

Hermetica - Libellus XII NULL

God makes the Aeon, the Aeon makes the Kosmos, the Kosmos makes Time, and Time makes Coming-to-be. The essence of God is the Good, the essence of the Aeon is sameness, the essence of the Kosmos is order, the essence of Time is change, and the essence of Coming-to-be is life. The workings of God are mind and soul, the workings of the Aeon are immortality and duration, the workings of the Aeon are immortality and duration, the workings of the kosmos are re-instatement in identity and re-instatement by substitution, the workings of Time are increase and decrease, and the workings of Coming-to-be are quality and quantity. The aeon then is in God, the Kosmos is in the Aeon, Time is in the Kosmos, and Coming-to-be takes place in Time.

Change | God | Good | Immortality | Life | Life | Mind | Order | Soul | Time | Wisdom | God |

Frank Gruber, pseudonumns include Stephen Ace, Charles K. Boston & John K. Vedder

It's just as easy to love a wealthy man as a poor one. And it is a lot easier to marry him.

Love | Man | Wisdom |

Benjamin R. Haydon

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainly of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

Men | Right | Wisdom | Wrong |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

Love | Majority | Wisdom |

Henry Grattan

Were she perfect, one would her admire her more, but love her less.

Love | Wisdom |