Wit & Wisdom
From Jean-Paul Sartre, Francis Bacon, Alfred North Whitehead, Mark Twain, Karl Marx, Jonathan Swift
“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”
Jean-Paul Sartre, quoted in The Huffington Post
“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.”
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Francis Bacon, quoted in the Financial Times
“We think in generalities, but we live in detail.”
Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, quoted in the Associated Press
“For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment.”
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Mark Twain, quoted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“In every stock-jobbing swindle, everyone knows that the crash must come, but everyone hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold.”
Karl Marx, quoted in The Australian
“When a true genius appears, you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
Jonathan Swift, quoted in The Washington Post
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