“Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.”

— George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life (1858)

About George Eliot

1819 – 1880

English novelist, author of "Middlemarch" and "Daniel Deronda".

“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.”

“Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.”

“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.”

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”

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“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”