“Well, who but a Nazi would deny that Karl Marx was a German because he was a Jew?”— Mr. Wilson《The Stranger》
“I, unhappy that I am, these eight years have I loved thee more than my life, and thou, as I have felt, art all afire and all consumed with love of a strange woman, wicked and perverse man that thou art!”— Giovanni Boccaccio《The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio》
“The Soul is brought by the Truth to a knowledge of the Heavenly Life (Coelia), and is led, through repentance, to seek forgiveness and to desire a holier life.”— Edmund Spenser《Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I》
“The answer is, that we must do good to our seeming and real good friends, and evil to our seeming and real evil enemies--good to the good, evil to the evil.”— Plato《The Republic of Plato》
“The position, as it would appear to a plain person of ordinary common sense, is that a woman who is legally married to one man and is living as the wife of another, is a married woman who is living with a man who is not her husband.”— R. Austin Freeman《Helen Vardon's confession》
“There were plenty of real worries for those who wished to complain; and for those inclined to take the fervour and faith, the courage and self-denial of the time, there were plenty of occasions for happiness and hope.”— Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr《The Belle of Bowling Green》
“And mind governs reason, and reason obeys mind; and mind is irremovable by fortune, cannot be taken away by informers, cannot be destroyed by disease, cannot have inroads made into it by old age.”— Plutarch《Plutarch's Morals》
“No man was there more upright than he, nor a greater lover of justice, nor was any woman more regardful of the Deities than she.”— Ovid《The metamorphoses of Ovid》
“So that when you are in harmony with nature in this respect, you will be elated with some reason; for you will be elated at some good of your own.”— Epictetus《The Enchiridion》
“If one should dream that such a world began In some slow devil's heart, that hated man, Who should deny him?--God, as thou art clean, Suffer not this, oh, suffer not this sin To be, that e'er I look on such a day!”— Sophocles《Oedipus King of Thebes: Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes》
“I have thought since of the wonderful goodness of God to me in preserving me in the use of my reason and senses in that distressed time, that I did not use wicked and violent means to end my own miserable life.”— Mary Rowlandson《Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson》
“She is a good and pure woman, and I love her as a man might love an angel.”— Arnold Bennett《The Grand Babylon Hotel》
“Sometimes love, for a woman, means only shelter; often, for a man, love means the blending of all knowledge, of all beauty, all ambition, of all that he has learned from books and from life.”— E. Phillips Oppenheim《The Zeppelin's Passenger》
“He was far too clear-headed to blink at the essential fact that at heart we were spies on a foreign power in time of peace, or to salve his conscience by specious distinctions as to our mode of operation.”— Erskine Childers《The Riddle of the Sands》
“It seems never to have entered the primitive mind of Vaughan to love, or serve, art and nature for themselves.”— Louise Imogen Guiney《A Little English Gallery》
“Yet even this way of life is in their estimation happier than groaning over the plough; toiling in the erection of houses; subjecting their own fortunes and those of others to the agitations of alternate hope and fear.”— Tacitus《The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus》
“Several times, the thought had come to me, that the Things had, at last, left us; but, up to this time, I had refused to entertain the idea, seriously; now, however, I began to feel that there was reason for hope.”— William Hope Hodgson《The House on the Borderland》
“His was the faith which is clothed in wisdom; his the wisdom which is hallowed by faith.”— Aaron Bernstein《Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ》
“But here was a man who had never done anything but good in his life, and was at the bar of justice charged with crime merely because some cold-blooded mercenaries thought he was interfering with their business!”— Arthur Cheney Train《By Advice of Counsel》
“It is better to honor a good man in life than to worship him after he is dead.”— José Rizal《Rizal's own story of his life》
