An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.
Society Quotes
Shakespeare, Emerson, Rousseau, Milton and John Stuart Mill lead the page. The sourced picks include Shaw’s remark in O’Flaherty V.C. (1919) that you will never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race, and a Martin Luther King sermon from 1967 on a man who talked as if he could build his barns alone.
Three entries have flags. “One man with courage makes a majority” is credited to Andrew Jackson, and the notes say it has never been found in his writings. Robert Kennedy and Ronald Reagan both repeated the attribution. “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons” is credited to Dostoyevsky and flagged misattributed. The “I expect to pass through this world but once” passage, credited to Stephen Grellet, is disputed. The first known print is a June 1869 magazine, writing of an unnamed Quaker.
There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano:
A stage where every man must play a part.
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
Inwardly everything should be different but our outward face should conform to the crowd.