A valid index by which to evaluate the influence other people have on us is by how much they increase or diminish our benevolence toward our fellow men.
Eric Hoffer (1902–1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 137 (1955)
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A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. We need not care whether they could prove the forty-seventh proposition; they do a better thing than that, they practically demonstrate the great Theorem of the Liveableness of Life.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36
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Euclid's 47th Proposition (in his Elements, Book 1) is the Pythagorean Theorem.Collected in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, ch. 3 (1881).
