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- Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
- Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)
- Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.
- Menander (342 BC - 292 BC)
- When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning.
- Manilius (~1 BC)
- Even pleasure itself is a toil.
- Manilius (~1 BC)
- Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
- I can endure my own despair,
but not another's hope. - William Walsh
- Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
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