Famous quotes containing the words ante, moral and/or hazard:
“Al that joye is went away,
That wele is comen to weylaway,
To manie harde stoundes.
Hoere paradis hy nomen here,
And now they lien in helle ifere:”
—Unknown. Ubi Sunt Qui ante Nos Fuerunt? (L. 16–20)
“Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers—such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a façade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)