Famous quotes containing the words equal, mass and/or number:
“Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.”
—Eugenio Montale (1896–1981)
“It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)