Date: w. 1365, trans. 1579
"And euerie one hath continuall warre with him selfe in the most secret closet of his minde."
preview | full record— Petrarch (1304-1374); Twyne, Thomas (1543–1613)
Date: 1682
"We are carry'd Up to the Heavens, and Down again into the Deep, by Turns; so long as we are govern'd by our Affections, and not by Virtue: Passion, and Reason, are a kind of Civil War within us; and as the one, or the other has Dominion, we are either Good, or Bad."
preview | full record— L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)
Date: July, 2015 [1983]
"Marx taught us in fact to understand once and for all what implacable work the unknown, the infinite vanquished victors, carry out in the societies that would prefer to ignore them, as well as within ourselves; what tunnels they dig, what blast-holes they prepare even inside those who hate them ...
preview | full record— Lattes, Franco [Franco Fortini] (1917-1994)