"New faces have more authority than accustomed ones."

-- Euripides

#Literature Quotes #Faces Quotes #Authority Quotes

“The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.”
“It was like the top of the roof came off the house, .. He had that effect on everyone.”
“. . when the target of crime is armed, there is more law present, more public policy present, and more public interest served than by all 20,000 gun laws in force.”
“There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.”

Source : W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.130, Diversion Books
“Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it.”
“[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.”

Source : Charles Taylor (1994). “Multiculturalism”, p.30, Princeton University Press
“I do remember, the first time we met [with Patti Smith], the door opening with a squeak. And then there was this very beautiful girl looking out.”
“Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.”

You may also like:

Aeschylus
Dramatist
Aristophanes
Playwright
Aristotle
Philosopher
Herodotus
Historian
Homer
Author
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher
Socrates
Philosopher
Sophocles
Playwright
Thucydides
Historian