Francis Bacon: Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhet

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philoso — Francis Bacon

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Francis Bacon

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Brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel. — Acts
Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows. — William Whitehead
Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a — Robert Morley
To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school. — G. K. Chesterton
There's nothing clever that hasn't been thought of before — you've just got to t — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lo, steel-clad War his gorgeous standard rears ! The red-cross squadrons madly r — Samuel Rogers
非利不動，非得不用，非危不戰。主不可以怒而興師，將不可以慍而致戰；合于利而動，不合于利而止。怒可以復喜，慍可以復悅，亡國不可以復存，死者不可以復生。故明君慎之， — Sun Tzu
Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, — William Shakespeare
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of br — John Dryden
The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies , to dealings in negot — Karl Marx
Nel suo profondo vidi che s'interna, legato con amore in un volume, ciò che per — Dante Alighieri
A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the — Anton Chekhov