- Western Proverb
Universe, Henri Bergson
Translation: The universe is a machine for making gods.
- Henri Bergson (1859-1941), The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932). Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, p. 317.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Universe
Advice, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The pen is mightier than the sword.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), Richelieu (1839)
Act ii, Scene ii. This is the origin of the much quoted phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword". Compare: "Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 4.
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