Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"Love your neighbor

Yet don't pull down your hedge."

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

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Thomas Jefferson

"I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere."

• From a letter sent by Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams on February, 22, 1787. 

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"Anger is never without a reason but seldom with a good one."

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

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400)

"Wherever there is drunkenness about
No secret can be hidden, make no doubt."

• From The Canterbury Tales (The Man of Law's Tale) by Geoffrey Chaucer, translated to modern English by Nevill Coghill (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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George Orwell

Erik Blare / George Orwell (British author, c. 1903-1950)

"I think the pacifists might find it helpful to illustrate their pamphlets with enlarged photographs of lice. Glory of war, indeed."

• From Homage to Catalonia written by George Orwell and edited by Adam Hochschild and Lionel Trilling (Mariner Books, 1969).

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400)

"Let's see who shall be first to tell a tale.
And as I hope to drink good wine and ale
I'll be your judge."

• From The Canterbury Tales (Prologue) by Geoffrey Chaucer, translated to modern English by Nevill Coghill (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan (French Writer, 1364-1430 CE)

"I tell you, the day that all men attain perfection, women will follow their example."

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

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400)

"Some say the things we most desire are these:
Freedom to do exactly as we please,
With no one to reprove our faults and lies,
Rather to have one call us good and wise."

• From The Canterbury Tales (Wife of Bath's Tale) by Geoffrey Chaucer, translated to modern English by Nevill Coghill (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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The Prophecies of Merlin (from Geoffrey of Monmouth)

Geoffrey of Monmouth (12th Century Welsh/English Writer)

"The Ass will put on a crown and then clamber above all that is most lofty and terrify the people with its hideous braying."

• From Part Five (The Prophecies of Merlin) of Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain, completed in 1136 CE, translated from Latin into English by Lewis Thorpe (Penguin Classics, 1966).

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Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan (French Writer, 1364-1430 CE)

"One shouldn't refrain from cultivating things which are good and useful just because some idiots use them unwisely."

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

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russian author, 1821-1881 CE)

"I assure you, gentlemen, that to be too acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease."

• From Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by David Magarshack (Modern Library, 1992).

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Admiral Henning von Holtzendorff

Admiral Henning von Holtzendorff (German Admiral largely responsible for the reintroduction of unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917 which encouraged the United States to enter WWI; lived 1853-1919 CE)

"I guarantee upon my word as a naval officer that no American will set foot on the Continent!"

• From a memorandum given by Holtzendorff translated in Barbara Tuchman's Zimmermann Telegram.

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (American Founding Father, 1706-1790)

"There are Croakers in every Country always boding its Ruin."

• From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, edited by Kennith Silverman (Penguin Classics, 1986).

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400 CE)

"Properly pasted was this miller's head,
Pale-drunk he was, he'd passed the stage of red;
Hiccupping through his nose he talked and trolled
As if he'd asthma or a heavy cold."

• From The Canterbury Tales (The Reeve's Tale) by Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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Anna Komnene

Anna Komnene (1083-1153 CE)

"But of course fault-finders stand out of weapon range and the acid darts they fire at the contestants come from their tongues."

• From The Alexiad by Anna Komnene, translated by E. R. A. Sewter. New York: Penguin Books, 2009.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400 CE)

"Age has a great advantage over youth
In wisdom and by custom, that's the truth.
The old may be out-run but not out-reasoned."

• From The Canterbury Tales (The Knight's Tale) by Geoffrey Chaucer, translated into modern English by Nevill Coghill (Penguin Classics edition, 1977).

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Gregory of Nazianzus

Gregory of Nazianzus (c. 330-390 CE)

"We have the beard, the humble mien, the bowed head, the subdued voice, the contrived sincerity, the measured gait--everything that goes with wisdom indeed, except a wise mind."

• From Saint Gregory of Nazianzus: Three Poems (autobiographical poems written by Gregory about his experiences as a clergyman) translated by Denis Molaise Meechan.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)

"For the direct, the inevitable and the legitimate result of consciousness is to make all action impossible, or--to put it differently--consciousness leads to thumb-twiddling."

• From Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground (chapter V), translated by David Magarshack.

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Loki (From The Prose Edda)

 Loki (from The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, 1179-1241 CE)

"I have a skill in which I am ready to be tested. No one here in the hall will prove quicker than I at eating his food."

• From The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, translated by Jesse Byock (Penguin Classic edition).

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Apuleius

Apuleius (125-170 CE)

"You aren't really rich if nobody knows that you are."

• From The Golden Ass or Metamorphoses by Apuleius, translated by E. J. Kenney.

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