Anxiety never yet successfully bridged any chasm.
—Giovanni Ruffini
Topics: Worry
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
—Giovanni Ruffini
Topics: Dedication, Commitment
Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.
—Giovanni Ruffini
Topics: Selfishness
Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
—Giovanni Ruffini
Topics: Class
Stories first heard at a mother’s knee are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.
—Giovanni Ruffini
Topics: Mother
If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.
—Giovanni Ruffini
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Emile Zola French Novelist
Gerard de Nerval French Poet, Writer
John Keats English Poet
Jeremy Bentham British Philosopher, Economist
Theodore Dreiser American Novelist, Journalist
Ivan Turgenev Russian Novelist, Playwright
Arthur Henry Hallam English Essayist, Poet
Constantine P. Cavafy Egyptian Greek Poet, Journalist, Civil Servant
John Galsworthy English Novelist, Playwright
Wilhelm Dilthey German Philosopher