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Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

Robert Graves

The Persian Version

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Graves, Robert. "The Persian Version." Poems 1938-1945: Satires and Grotesques. Cassell & Company, 1946, I. 1.

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Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails,
And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. London: John Newbery, 1764.

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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

Hermann Hesse

Demian

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Emanuel von Bodman. 17 Aug. 1901.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, translated by Jane B. Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

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Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

John Churton Collins

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Collins, Churton. "Some Maxims and Reflections." The English Review, c. 1914.

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We never have despair without some small hope.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Pasolini, Pier Paolo. "Un'Appendice alla 'Religione': Una luce [An Appendix to 'Religion': The Light]." La religione del mio tempo. [The Religion of My Time]. c. 1961.

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Pasolini, Pier Paolo. "Appendice alla 'Religione': Una Luce/Appendix to 'The Religion of My Time: A Light." The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolinia: A Bilingual Edition, edited and translated by Stephen Sartarelli. University of Chicago Press, 2015.

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An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

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Samuel Butler. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones. A. C. Fifield, 1912, ch. 14.

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The happiness of life, on the contrary, is made up of minute fractions-the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Improvisatore

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Improvisatore. c. 1828.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Improvisatore." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Complete Poems, edited by William Keach. Penguin Classics, 1997.

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is of slight worth, as all life is a dream, and dreams are dreams.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Life is a Dream

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Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. La vida es sueño [Life Is a Dream]. 1635, Madrid, Spain, act 2.

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Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. Life is a Dream. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 2.

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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.... Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot, Walter. "The Character of Sir Robert Peel." National Review, July 1856.

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Bagehot, Walter. "The Character of Sir Robert Peel." The Best of Bagehot. Hamish Hamilton, 1993.

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What a misfortune it is to be born a woman!... Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show us the narrow limits, the Gothic structure, the impenetrable barriers of our prison.

Maria Edgeworth

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Edgeworth, Maria. Leonora. London: J. Johnson, 1806, letter 1.

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A mighty pain to love it is,
And 'tis a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.

Abraham Cowley

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Cowley, Abraham. "Anacreontiques." Poems written by A. Cowley. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1656, no. 7.

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Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

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Is the dwelling place of God anywhere but in the earth and sea, the air and sky, and virtue? Why seek we further for deities? Whatever you see, whatever you touch, that is Jupiter.

Lucan

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Pharsalia

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Lucan. Pharsalia, or De Bello Civili. c. 65, bk. 9, l. 578-580.

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Lucan. Civil War, translated by Matthew Fox. Penguin Classics, 2012, bk. 9, l. 578-580.

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The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

John Jay Chapman

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Chapman, John Jay. Emerson and Other Essays. Moffat, Yard and Company, 1909, preface.

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If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.

Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun

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Fletcher, Andrew. Letter to the Marquis of Montrose. 1 Dec. 1703.

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Fletcher, Andrew. "An Account of Conversation concerning a Right Regulation of Government for the Good of Mankind. In a Letter to the Marquis of Montrose." Andrew Fletcher: Political Works, edited by John Robertson. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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In every house of marriage
there's room for an interpreter.

Stanley Kunitz

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Kunitz, Stanley. "Route Six." New England Review, c. 1993.

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Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

Stanislaw Lec

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Lec, Stanislaw. Unkempt Thoughts, translated by Jacek Galazka. St. Martin's Press, 1962. Originally published as Myśli nieuczesane [Uncombed Thoughts]. Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1957.

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