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“Variant translation: Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
Crime And Punishment • Fyodor Dostoevski“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
Les Misérables • VICTOR HUGO“ Thanks to the achievements of East Asia's first farmers, China became Chinese. ”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!”
Moby Dick • Herman Melville““Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind’s eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye.””
Republic • Plato