Great Throughts Treasury

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

Order | Self-sacrifice | Think |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

I have no desire to make windows into men’s souls

Evil | Experience | Good | Little | Treason | Trial |

Emil M. Cioran

If our fellow men could be aware of our opinions about them, love, friendship, and devotion would be forever erased from the dictionaries; and if we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

Order | Regard |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

Angels | Order | Will |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.

Evil | Good | Men |

Emil M. Cioran

Man started out on the wrong foot. the misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

Action | Order |

Emil M. Cioran

In most cases we attach ourselves to God in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.

Evil | Little | Man |

Emil M. Cioran

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

God | Order | Revenge | God |

Emil M. Cioran

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

Day | Men | Order |

Dorothy Parker

Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.

Order |

Emile Zola

The vision that had emerged from the invisible was returning to the invisible. It was no more an appearance that was fading away, having created an illusion. All is but a dream. And, at the peak of happiness, Angélique had vanished, in the faint breath of a kiss.

Evil | Light | Time | Will | Trial |

Emile Zola

In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.

Despair | Destroy | Effort | Good | Honor | Innocence | Life | Life | Man | Men | Office | Order | People | Public | Society | War | Society |

Emile Gaboriau

You say she loves him? No one but a coward would be defrauded of the woman he loved and who loved him. Ah, if I had once felt Madeleine's hand tremble in mine, if her rosy lips had pressed a kiss upon my brow, the whole world could not take her from me.

Order |

Emile Zola

But you said so yourself, the poor lass will die of it...Do you really want her to die?

Absolute | Conduct | Crime | Evil | Innocence | Justice | Law | Mankind | Office | Public | Suffering | Time | War | Guilty |

Emile Zola

How the thought of meeting lost loved ones would sweeten one's last moments, how eagerly would one embrace them, and what bliss to live together once more in immortality! He suffered agonies when he considered religion's charitable lie, which compassionately conceals the terrible truth from feeble creatures. No, everything finished at death, nothing that we had loved was ever reborn, our farewells were for ever. For ever! For ever! That was the dreadful thought that carried his mind hurtling down abysses of emptiness.

Evil | Life | Life |

Emil M. Cioran

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

Order | Waiting |

Emma Goldman

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us to-day... The rulers of the earth have realized long ago what potent poison inheres in the Christian religion. That is the reason they foster it; that is why they leave nothing undone to instill it into the blood of the people. They know only too well that the subtleness of the Christian teachings is a more powerful protection against rebellion and discontent than the club or the gun.

Birth | Body | Earth | Enjoyment | Guarantee | Heart | Human nature | Individual | Liberty | Men | Mind | Nature | Observation | Order | Peace | Purpose | Purpose | Restraint | Soul | Study | Teach | Wickedness | Will | World |

Emma Goldman

Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.

Body | Earth | Enjoyment | Guarantee | Individual | Mind | Order | Purpose | Purpose | Restraint | Will |

Emmet Fox

Never resent jealousy, it is the heights of flattery - no one is ever jealous of a fool.

Chance | Courtesy | Enemy | Error | Evil | Fighting | Harmony | Heart | Knowing | Men | Nothing | Power | Rest | Sense | Thought | Time | Truth | Old | Think | Thought |

Empedocles NULL

But when Strife was grown great in the limbs of the god and sprang forth to claim his prerogatives, in the fullness of the alternate time set for them by the mighty oath,….for all the limbs of the god in turn quaked.

Evil | Light | Men | Race |