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- Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
- George Gissing (1857 - 1903)
- Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
- Felix Frankfurter (1882 - 1965)
- He who spares the wicked injures the good.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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