Famous quotes containing the words century, masters, millennium and/or collection:
“They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“The masters of the subtle schools
Are controversial, polymath.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of the moral judgment of Christians everywhere that if a man and a woman, entering a room together, close the door behind them, the man will come out sadder and the woman wiser.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)