Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321)

"The soul is by vile fear assail'd, which oft
So overcasts a man, that he recoils
From noblest resolution, like a beast
At some false semblance in the twilight gloom"

• Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy (Inferno, Canto II), translated by Henry F. Cary in the Harvard Classics series, edited by Charles W. Eliot, and published by P. F. Collier & Son (1909, 1937).

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Plutarch

Plutarch (c. 50-120)

"So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of any thing by history, when, on the one hand, those who afterwords write it find long periods of time intercepting their view, and, on the other hand, the contemporary records of any actions and lives, partly through envy and ill-will, partly through favor and flattery, pervert and distort truth."

• Plutarch in Parallel Lives (Life of Pericles, 13.12). The edition used here is from the Harvard Classics series, edited by Charles W. Eliot, and published by P. F. Collier & Son (1909, 1937).

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Confucius

Confucius (c. 551-479 BCE)

"A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds."

• The Analects of Confucius (Book XIV, section 29) translated by Arthur Waley (Vintage Books, 1989).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"To dislodge by argument habits long embedded in the character is a difficult if not impossible task."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book X, section 9, Bekker page 1179b) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Book of Psalms

The Book of Psalms (a multi-generational work likely finalized between the 6th and 3rd centuries BC)

"Whoever of you loves life
     and desires to see many good days,
keep your tongue from evil
     and your lips from speaking lies.
Turn from evil and do good;
     seek peace and pursue it."

--Psalms 34: 12-14 (New International Version, 1978, 2011)




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Friedrich Schleiermacher

Friedrich Schleiermacher (c. 1768-1834)

"All religious feelings are supernatural, for they are religious only insofar as they are produced directly by the universe; whether they are religious in oneself, each person must judge best."

• From Friedrich Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (second speech), translated by Richard Crouter (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu (sayings recorded between 6th-3rd century BCE)

"Weakness
     Stems from
     Preparing against attack.

Strength
     Stems from
     Obliging the enemy
     To prepare against an attack."

• Sun Tzu's The Art of War (Chapter Six), translated by John Minford (Penguin Classics edition, 2009).

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Confucius

Confucius (c. 551-479 BCE)

"In official speeches all that matters is to get one's meaning through."

• The Analects of Confucius (Book XV, section 40) translated by Arthur Waley (Vintage Books, 1989).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"Life is a desirable thing, especially for the good, because for them existence is good and pleasant (since they feel pleasure in the consciousness of what is in itself good)."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book XI, section 9, Bekker page 1170b) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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The Buddha

The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"A comfort is virtue into old age.
A comfort is the establishment of conviction.
A comfort is the attainment of insightful knowledge.
Not acting destructively is a comfort."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 23), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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Livy

Livy (c. 59 BCE-17 CE)

"Learn by another's sorrow to avoid it for yourselves."

• The History of Rome (Book 3, section 30) by Livy, translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt. New York: Penguin Classics, 2002.

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Odin (from Hávamál)

Odin (Norse god)

"The stupid man stays awake all night
and worries about everything;
he's tired out when the morning comes
and all's just as bad as it was."

• This quote comes from stanza 23 of Hávamál (Sayings of the High One), an old poem which was preserved in the 13th-century Poetic Edda which was produced anonymously in Iceland. The translation is by Carolyne Larrington (Oxford University Press, 2014).

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Sima Qian

Sima Qian (145-90 BCE)

"The wise ruler is primarily concerned in perceiving the sources from which all changes arise, in understanding the keys to safety and peril, and in incorporating this knowledge in his governing of the nation, in order to forestall danger before it has taken form."

• Quote from an essay attributed to Xu Yue in the Records of the Grand Historian (Shi Ji, 112) by Sima Qian. Translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press, 1993).

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Cassius Dio

Cassius Dio (163-235)

"Let no man be the object of your jealousy, and when you compete with one another let it not be for the personal advantage of this man or that, but to ensure the safety and prosperity of the city."

• From a speech attributed to Octavian/Augustus in Cassius Dio's The Roman History (Book 53, chapter 10), translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert (Penguin Classics, 1987).

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Pericles

Pericles (c. 495-429 BCE)

"A general ought not only to have clean hands, but also clean eyes."

• Quote attributed to Pericles by Plutarch in Parallel Lives (Life of Pericles, 8.5). The edition used here is from the Harvard Classics series, edited by Charles W. Eliot, and published by P. F. Collier & Son (1909, 1937).

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Sima Qian

Sima Qian (c. 145-90 BCE)

"Thus the shifts of success and failure are entwined like the strands of a rope."

• Records of the Grand Historian (Shi Ji 113) by Sima Qian. Translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press, 1993).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"For where there is nothing in common between ruler and ruled there is no friendship either, just as there is no justice."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book VIII, section 11, Bekker page 1161a) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Mo Tzu

Mo Tzu (c. 5th century BCE)

"Now let us try sounding the great bells, striking the rolling drums, strumming the zithers, blowing the pipes, and waving the shields and axes in the war dance. Does this do anything to rescue the world from chaos and restore it to order? I hardly think so."

• From the Basic Writings of Mo Tzu (Against Music, part I, section 32), translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press, 1963).

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Murasaki Shikibu

Murasaki Shikibu (c. 11th century)

"How sad and cruel it is, the way we cling to what lasts like evening dew!"

• From Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji (chapter 39), translated by Royall Tyler (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"Are we to stir up evil war again, with all the sound and fury of battle, or shall we make peace between the two sides?"

• From The Iliad (Book 4, approx. line 10) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and revised by Peter Jones (Penguin Classics, 2014).

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Confucius

Confucius (c. 551-479 BCE)

"Learn as if you were following someone whom you could not catch up, as though it were someone you were frightened of losing."

• The Analects of Confucius (Book VIII, section 17) translated by Arthur Waley (Vintage Books, 1989).

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Odin (from Hávamál)

Odin (from Hávamál)

"The cowardly man thinks he'll live for ever,
if he keeps away from fighting;
but old age won't grant him a truce
even if spears spare him."

• This quote comes from stanza 16 of Hávamál (Sayings of the High One), an old poem which was preserved in the 13th-century Poetic Edda which was produced anonymously in Iceland. The translation is by Carolyne Larrington (Oxford University Press, 2014).

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The Buddha

The Buddha (6th-5th century BCE)

"Irrigators guide the water.
Fletchers shape the arrow shaft.
Carpenters shape wood.
The virtuous tame themselves."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 10), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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Plutarch

Plutarch (c. 50-120)

"Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen, than it inspires an impulse to practise; and influences the mind and character not by a mere imitation which we look at, but, by the statement of the fact, creates a moral purpose which we form."

• Quote by Plutarch in Parallel Lives (Life of Pericles). The edition used here is from the Harvard Classics series, edited by Charles W. Eliot, and published by P. F. Collier & Son (1909, 1937).

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Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio (c. 1313-1375)

"Do as you would be done by, that's my motto."

• The Decameron (Second Day, Ninth Story) by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by G. H. McWilliam. New York: Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Mencius

Mencius (c. 372-289 BCE)

"If the services of the common people were used with a view to sparing them hardship, they would not complain even when hard driven."

• From The Mencius (Book VII, Part A, section 12) by Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Owing to the helplessness and subservience of democracy in the hands of ambitious and commanding men, added to the facilities of modern locomotion and propaganda, many communities have been plunged back into a state of insecurity hitherto only associated with barbarism."

• From Sir Winston Churchill's "Europe's Peace" (February 5, 1937), in Winston S. Churchill Step By Step: Political Writings 1936-1939 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015).

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Friedrich Schleiermacher

Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)

"Eternal humanity is unweariedly busy in creating and in representing itself in the most varied ways in the provisional appearance of finite life."

• From Friedrich Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (second speech), translated by Richard Crouter (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan (c. 1364-1430)

"Anyone who wanted could cite plentiful examples of exceptional women in the world today: it's simply a matter of looking for them."

• The Book of the City of Ladies (Part I, chapter 41) by Christine de Pizan, translated by Rosalind Brown-Grant (Penguin Classics, 1999).

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Thucydides

Thucydides (460-400 BCE)

"There is no need to talk about what happened long ago: there our evidence would be that of hearsay rather than that of eyewitnesses amongst our audience."

• History of the Peloponnesian War (Book I, section 73) by Thucydides, translated by Rex Warner (Penguin Classics, 1972).

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Confucius

Confucius (551-479 BCE)

"In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people."

• The Analects of Confucius (Book XIV, section 25) translated by Arthur Waley (Vintage Books, 1989).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 BCE)

"The wish for friendship develops rapidly, but friendship does not."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book VIII, section 3, Bekker page 1156b) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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The Buddha

The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"Darkened is this world.
 Few have insight here.
 Like a bird set free from a net,
 few go to a higher world."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 13), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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Mo Tzu

Mo Tzu (c. 5th century BCE)

"If a government is rich in worthy men, then the administration will be characterized by weight and substance; but if it is poor in such men, then the administration will be a paltry affair."

• From the Basic Writings of Mo Tzu (Honoring the Worthy, part I, section 8), translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press, 1963).

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Odin (from Hávamál)

Odin (Norse god)

"Where you recognize evil, call it evil,
and give no truce to your enemies."

• This quote comes from stanza 127 of Hávamál (Sayings of the High One), an old poem which was preserved in the 13th-century Poetic Edda which was produced anonymously in Iceland. The translation is by Carolyne Larrington (Oxford University Press, 2014).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"The noblest question in the world is
What good may I do in it?"

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"Utility is an impermanent thing: it changes according to circumstances."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book VIII, section 3, Bekker page 1156a) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"The hate-culture continues, fostered by printing-press and broadcast — the very instruments, in fact, which philosophers might have hoped would liberate mankind from such perils."

• From Sir Winston Churchill's "Europe's Peace" (February 5, 1937), in Winston S. Churchill Step By Step: Political Writings 1936-1939 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015).

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The Buddha

The Buddha (6th-5th century BCE)

"The night is long for the wide awake.
The mile is long for the weary.
The round of birth and death is long
for childish people, who do not know the good way."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 5), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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Thucydides

Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE)

"One cannot regulate fortune to fit in with what one has decided one wants to happen."

• From a speech attributed to the Syracusan general, Hermocrates, in the History of the Peloponnesian War (Book VI, section 78) by Thucydides, translated by Rex Warner (Penguin Classics, 1972).

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Confucius

Confucius (c. 551-479 BCE)

"To lead into battle a people that has not first been instructed is to betray them."

• The Analects of Confucius (Book XIII, section 29/30) translated by Arthur Waley (Vintage Books, 1989). 

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Odin (from Hávamál)

Odin (from Hávamal)

"The mind alone knows what lies near the heart,
he is alone with his spirit;
no sickness is worse for the sensible man
than to find no contentment in anything."

• This quote comes from stanza 95 of Hávamál (Sayings of the High One), an old poem which was preserved in the 13th-century Poetic Edda produced anonymously in Iceland. The translation is by Carolyne Larrington (Oxford University Press, 2014).

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"Day after day, one after the other, men fall in their hundreds - would we ever find rest from struggle and suffering? No: we must steel our hearts, bury our dead and let one day's tears suffice."

• From The Iliad (Book 19, approx. line 220) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and revised by Peter Jones (Penguin Classics, 2014). 

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Alfred the Great

King Alfred the Great (c. 844-899)

"A man cannot work on any enterprise without resources. In the case of the king, the resources and tools with which to rule are that he have his land fully manned: he must have praying men, fighting men and working men."

• From Alfred the Great's loose and expanded translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, translated to modern English by Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 BCE)

"One can forgive a man for not standing by his opinions in the face of powerful desires, but one cannot forgive wickedness or any other culpable attitude."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book VII, section 2, Bekker page 1146a) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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The Buddha

The Buddha (6th-5th century BCE)

"Regard the person who sees your faults
as a revealer of treasures.
Associate with that skilled person
as one who is wise, who speaks reprovingly
Keeping company with such a person,
things get better, not worse."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 6), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu (sayings recorded between the 6th and 3rd centuries BCE)

"Managing many
     Is the same as
     Managing few;
     It is a question of
     Division."

• Sun Tzu's The Art of War (Chapter Five), translated by John Minford (Penguin Classics edition, 2009).

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Gregory of Tours

Gregory of Tours (c. 539-594)

"Anyone who does exactly what he wishes is plainly in subjection to none."

• The History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours (Book VI, section 18), translated by Lewis Thorpe. New York: Penguin Classics, 1971.

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Thucydides

Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE)

"Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation."

• History of the Peloponnesian War (Book I, section 76) by Thucydides, translated by Rex Warner (Penguin Classics, 1972).

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