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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!

Horace

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Topic

Getting started

Author

Horace

Source

Epistles 1

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Advice

Language

Latin

Time

20 BC 20s 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 2.

Current Citation

Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 2.

And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

Horace

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Topic

Seeking the truth Truth Learning Education

Author

Horace

Source

Epistles 2

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Advice

Language

Latin

Time

14 BC 10s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Horace. Epistularum liber secundus [Second Book of Letters]. 14 BC, bk. 2, epistle 2.

Current Citation

Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 2, epistle 2.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

Thomas Jefferson

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Newspapers Media

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Thomas Jefferson

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1807 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to John Norvell. 14 June 1807.

Current Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. "John Norvell, 14 June 1807." The Portable Thomas Jefferson, edited by Merrill D. Peterson. Penguin Classics, 1977.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson

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Purpose of government Political theory

Author

Thomas Jefferson

Source

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Medium

Open letter Letter

Language

English

Time

1809 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to the Republican Citizens of Washington County, Maryland. 31 Mar. 1809.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

St. Jerome

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Willful ignorance Ignorance

Author

St. Jerome

Source

Letters of St. Jerome

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

394 390s 4th century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 0

Original Citation

Saint Jerome. Letter to Paulinus. c. 394.

Current Citation

Saint Jerome. The Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2016.

Man is a reasoning animal.

Seneca the Younger

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Topic

Nature of man Reason Man and animals

Author

Seneca the Younger

Source

Epistles (Seneca the Younger)

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

65 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

Current Citation

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

All newspaper and journalistic activity is an intellectual brothel from which there is no retreat.

Leo Tolstoy

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Newspapers Media Media criticism

Author

Leo Tolstoy

Medium

Letter

Language

Russian

Time

1871 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. Letter to Prince V. P. Meshchersky. 22 Aug. 1871.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. Tolstoy's Letters: 1828-1879, translated and edited by R. F. Christian. Vol. 1, University of London The Athlone Press, 1978.

Peace hath her victories
No less renowned than war.

John Milton

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War and peace Peacetime

Author

John Milton

Source

To Oliver Cromwell

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1674 1670s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Milton, John. "To Oliver Cromwell." Letters of State Written by Mr. John Milton. London, 1694, l. 9.

Current Citation

Milton, John. "To the Lord General Cromwell." John Milton: The Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 9.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing a new truth or fact.

Charles Darwin

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Scientific progress Progress Science

Author

Charles Darwin

Source

Letters of Charles Darwin

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

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Darwin, Charles. Letter to A. S. Wilson, 5 Mar. 1879.

Current Citation

Darwin, Charles. "To A. S. Wilson, 5 March 1879." The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, edited by Frederick Burkhardt and James A. Secord. Vol. 27: 1879. Cambridge University Press, 2020, no. 11917.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Jane Austen

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Misanthropy

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Letters of Jane Austen

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1798 1790s 18th century

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Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Letter to Cassandra Austen. 24 Dec. 1798.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Letters of Jane Austen, edited by Lord Brabourne. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2009.

I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Europe

Author

Napoleon Bonaparte

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1807 1800s 19th century

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Citation

Bonaparte, Napoleon. Letter to Louis Bonaparte. 6 May 1807.

Religion is an all-important matter in a public school for girls. Whatever people say, it is the mother's safeguard, and the husband's. What we ask of education is not that girls should think, but that they should believe.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Education of girls Gender roles Oppression of women

Author

Napoleon Bonaparte

Source

Note sur L'Etablissement D'Ecouen

Medium

Letter

Language

French

Time

1807 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Bonaparte, Napoleon. Note sur L'Etablissement D'Ecouen [Note on the establishment of Écouen]. 15 May 1807.

Civility costs nothing and buys every thing.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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Civility Politeness

Author

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1756 1750s 18th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Letter to Lady Bute. 30 May 1756.

Current Citation

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. "Letter to Lady Bute." The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Volume III: 1752-1762, edited by Robert Halsband. Oxford University Press, 1967.

The advancement & diffusion of Knowledge, which is the only Guardian of true liberty.

James Madison

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Topic

Education Freedom

Author

James Madison

Source

Letters of James Madison

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1825 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Madison, James. Letter to George Thomson. 30 June 1825.

Current Citation

Madison, James. "Political Observations, 20 Apr. 1795." Founders Online, National Archives. Founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-15-02-0423.

The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent.

Albert Einstein

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Nature of time Time

Author

Albert Einstein

Source

Letters of Albert Einstein

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Einstein, Albert. Quoted in Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology, by Max Jammer. Princeton University Press, 1999. Originally from Letter to Michaelangelo Besso, 21 Mar. 1955.

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.

Thomas Jefferson

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Informed citizenry Political theory

Author

Thomas Jefferson

Source

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1820 1820s 19th century

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Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to William Charles Jarvis. 28 Sept. 1820.

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

St. Jerome

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Topic

First impressions

Author

St. Jerome

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

403 400s 5th century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Saint Jerome. Letter to Laeta. c. 403, sect. 4.

Current Citation

Saint Jerome. "Letter CVII." Select Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2015, sect. 4.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual, he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

Thomas Jefferson

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Topic

Lying

Author

Thomas Jefferson

Source

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1785 1780s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Peter Carr. 19 Aug. 1785.

Current Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. "Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

I had no intention to write atheistically. But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world.

Charles Darwin

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Problem of evil

Author

Charles Darwin

Source

Letters of Charles Darwin

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1860 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Darwin, Charles. Letter to Asa Gray. 22 May 1860.

Current Citation

Darwin, Charles. Letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860]." The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, edited by Frederick Burkhardt and James A. Secord. Vol. 8: 1860. Cambridge University Press, 2022, no. 2814.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca the Younger

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Character Compliments

Author

Seneca the Younger

Source

Epistles (Seneca the Younger)

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

65 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

Current Citation

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.