“What, gracious God, is man! that there should be such inconsistency and perfidiousness in his conduct?”
George Washington in George Washington: A Collection compiled and edited by W.B. Allen
“‘Each of us is interested in himself whether he wishes it or not, whether he thinks himself important or not, and for the simple reason that each of us is both the subject and the protagonist of his own nontransferable life.’”
José Ortega y Gasset in Man and Crisis, quoted in Leonard Read Let Freedom Reign
“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