"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."-Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza "Ethics, pt.II" 1677 "The multitude is always in the wrong."-Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon "Essay on Translated Verse" 1684 "Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species."-Joseph Addison "The Spectator, no.1" 1711 "Life is a jest; and all things show it.I thought so once; but now I know it."-John Gay "My Own Epitaph" 1688- 1732 "Common sense is not so common."-Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) "Dictionnaire Philosophique" 1764 "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."-Benjamin Franklin "Poor Richard's Almanac" 1734 "Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves."-Jean Jaques Rousseau "Emile; ou, De l'Education" 1762 "This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."-Horace Walpole "Letter to the Countess of Upper Ossary" aug.16, 1776 "No person must have to."-Gotthold Ephraim Lessing "Nathan der Weise" 1779 "A fool must now and then be right, by chance."-William Cowper "Conversation" 1782 "I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry."-Pierre de Beaumarchais "Le Barbier de Seville" 1775 "The logic of the heart is absurd."-Julie de Lespinasse "Letter to M. Guibert" aug.27, 1774 "The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed."-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Maxims and Thoughts" 1741- 1794 "I cannot live without books."-Thomas Jefferson "Letter to John Adams" jun.10, 1815 "Am I god? I see so clearly!"-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Faust" 1808- 1832 "The will to do, the soul to dare."-Sir Walter Scott "The Lady of the Lake, I" 1810 "Alone, alone, all, all alone;Alone on a wide, wide sea."-Samuel Taylor Coleridge "The Rhime of the Ancient mariner, IV" 1798 "He went like one that hath been stunned,And is of sense forlorn.A sadder and a wiser man,He rose the morrow morn."-Ibid "The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good act by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."-Charles Lamb "Table Talk, In the Athenaeum" 1834 "Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thouroughly, to judge events sanely is, therefore, a great step toward happiness."-Stendhal (Henri Beyle) "Journal" dec. 10, 1801 "Among them, but not of them; in a shroudOf thoughts which were not their thoughts."-George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimmage, III" 1812 "Fare thee well! and if forever,Still forever, fare thee well."-Lord Byron "Fare Thee Well" 1816 "So we'll go no more a-rovingSo late into the night,Though the heart be still as loving,And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath,And the soul wears out the breast,And the heart must pause to breathe,And love itself have rest. Though the night was made for loving,And the day returns too soon,Yet we'll go no more a-roving,By the light of the moon."-Lord Byron "So, We'll Go No More A-roving" 1817 "'Tis strange- but true; for truth is alwaysstrange;Stranger than fiction."-Lord Byron "Don Juan Dedication, XIV" 1818 "Intellect is invisible to the man who has none."-Schopenhauer "Essays: Our Relation to Others" 1788- 1860 "We look before and after,And pine for what is not;Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught;Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."-Percy Bysshe Shelley "To a Skylark" 1821 Back
"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."-Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza "Ethics, pt.II" 1677
"The multitude is always in the wrong."-Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon "Essay on Translated Verse" 1684
"Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species."-Joseph Addison "The Spectator, no.1" 1711
"Life is a jest; and all things show it.I thought so once; but now I know it."-John Gay "My Own Epitaph" 1688- 1732
"Common sense is not so common."-Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) "Dictionnaire Philosophique" 1764
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."-Benjamin Franklin "Poor Richard's Almanac" 1734
"Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves."-Jean Jaques Rousseau "Emile; ou, De l'Education" 1762
"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."-Horace Walpole "Letter to the Countess of Upper Ossary" aug.16, 1776
"No person must have to."-Gotthold Ephraim Lessing "Nathan der Weise" 1779
"A fool must now and then be right, by chance."-William Cowper "Conversation" 1782
"I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry."-Pierre de Beaumarchais "Le Barbier de Seville" 1775
"The logic of the heart is absurd."-Julie de Lespinasse "Letter to M. Guibert" aug.27, 1774
"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed."-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Maxims and Thoughts" 1741- 1794
"I cannot live without books."-Thomas Jefferson "Letter to John Adams" jun.10, 1815
"Am I god? I see so clearly!"-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Faust" 1808- 1832
"The will to do, the soul to dare."-Sir Walter Scott "The Lady of the Lake, I" 1810
"Alone, alone, all, all alone;Alone on a wide, wide sea."-Samuel Taylor Coleridge "The Rhime of the Ancient mariner, IV" 1798
"He went like one that hath been stunned,And is of sense forlorn.A sadder and a wiser man,He rose the morrow morn."-Ibid "The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good act by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."-Charles Lamb "Table Talk, In the Athenaeum" 1834 "Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thouroughly, to judge events sanely is, therefore, a great step toward happiness."-Stendhal (Henri Beyle) "Journal" dec. 10, 1801 "Among them, but not of them; in a shroudOf thoughts which were not their thoughts."-George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimmage, III" 1812 "Fare thee well! and if forever,Still forever, fare thee well."-Lord Byron "Fare Thee Well" 1816 "So we'll go no more a-rovingSo late into the night,Though the heart be still as loving,And the moon be still as bright.
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good act by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."-Charles Lamb "Table Talk, In the Athenaeum" 1834
"Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thouroughly, to judge events sanely is, therefore, a great step toward happiness."-Stendhal (Henri Beyle) "Journal" dec. 10, 1801
"Among them, but not of them; in a shroudOf thoughts which were not their thoughts."-George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimmage, III" 1812
"Fare thee well! and if forever,Still forever, fare thee well."-Lord Byron "Fare Thee Well" 1816
"So we'll go no more a-rovingSo late into the night,Though the heart be still as loving,And the moon be still as bright.
For the sword outwears its sheath,And the soul wears out the breast,And the heart must pause to breathe,And love itself have rest.
Though the night was made for loving,And the day returns too soon,Yet we'll go no more a-roving,By the light of the moon."-Lord Byron "So, We'll Go No More A-roving" 1817
"'Tis strange- but true; for truth is alwaysstrange;Stranger than fiction."-Lord Byron "Don Juan Dedication, XIV" 1818
"Intellect is invisible to the man who has none."-Schopenhauer "Essays: Our Relation to Others" 1788- 1860
"We look before and after,And pine for what is not;Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught;Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."-Percy Bysshe Shelley "To a Skylark" 1821
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