“Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy,...” — Dakin Matthews Quote

Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these.

You can't argue that you have to have art, and prove it to anybody. Why should I give $1,000 to art when there are people starving? Of course, that's true. But just because you can't, theoretically, defend the arts, or make a sensible argument for their preservation, doesn't mean they're not important.

Often, directors toss playwrights out of rehearsals.

Hamlet is the result of Shakespeare's work on Brutus.

I actually only speak English and Latin. Medieval philosophy was my major, so we pretty much had to study in Latin.

The convertible note is a useful and common financing structure in Silicon Valley. It's a form of debt that is really more a type of equity - one where the valuation hasn't been determined yet.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

In school I sometimes felt I didn't have music in common with other kids.

People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language.

Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites.