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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