We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.

Edmund Burke · A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1756), pt. I, sec. 14

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Edmund Burke

Mere parsimony is not economy.… Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.

Edmund Burke · Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians (1792), Letter to a Noble Lord (1796)

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Edmund Burke

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Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

John Berger · Ways of Seeing (1972), ch. 3

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Michel de Montaigne · Essays, III, 9

The truth doesn't fit into one heart, into one mind; truth is somehow splintered.

Svetlana Alexievich · The source reads: “It always troubled me that the truth doesn't fit into one heart, into one mind, that truth is somehow splintered. There's a lot of it, it is varied, and it is strewn about the world.” · Nobel Lecture (2015)

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“We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.”

“He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.”

“Mere parsimony is not economy.… Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.”

“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”

“Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.”

“There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.”

“The truth doesn't fit into one heart, into one mind; truth is somehow splintered.”