John P.

“Women, our superiors! Yes, my brothers: accept this strange judgement from the mouth of one who has known many of them. They”
― Ippolito Nievo, Confessions of an Italian

“It was at that battle that Goethe, present on the staff of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, made (we are told) a famous remark: “From today and from this place begins a new epoch in the history of the world.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Napoleon: The Story of Civilization, Volume XI

“The fact is, my dear friend, love of the truth is higher and purer than any other. The truth, however poor and naked it may be, is more lovable and more holy than any sumptuous, dressed-up falsehood. And thus every time I’m able remove some flounce or frill from you, my heart leaps in my breast and a triumphal crown girds my head. Blessed be that philosophy that teaches us that though we be mortal, weak and unhappy, we can be great in equality, liberty and love!”
― Ippolito Nievo, Le confessioni d'un Italiano

“On August 26 the Assembly responded by conferring French citizenship upon Joseph Priestley, Jeremy Bentham, William Wilberforce, Anacharsis Cloots, Johann Pestalozzi, Thaddeus Kosciusko, Friedrich Schiller, George Washington, Thomas Paine, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Napoleon: The Story of Civilization, Volume XI