“There is an old saying that a man is a fool who can’t be angry, but a man is wise who won’t be angry.”
Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“You would think men had sworn allegiance to crime!”
Jupiter in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (specifically the 1st story “Lycaon” about a werewolf )
In the piece I just wrote for the National Post
I deplore that the woke now think Seuss should be toast.
“If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.”
Jordan Peterson on Instagram (all caps in the post) Nov. 18, 2020
“Change, change, change. All this talk about change, aren’t things bad enough already?”
Queen Victoria, according to Lord Palmerston, quoted by Mark Bauerlein in National Post Dec. 14, 2020
“Our life is what our thoughts make it."
Marcus Aurelius, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
Widely attributed to Confucius online, but no site I found offers any further source details
“Good soldiers, who both love and trust their general, frequently march with more gaiety and alacrity to the forlorn station, from which they never expect to return, than they would to one where there was neither difficulty nor danger. In marching to the latter, they could feel no other sentiment than that of the dullness of ordinary duty: in marching to the former, they feel that they are making the noblest exertion which it is possible for them to make.”
Adam Smith in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, arguing that people shouldn’t have trouble facing disaster knowing God is good