Quote #3167
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned...
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate now what’s going to happen to...
Quote #666
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in...
Quote #2144
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
Quote #944
Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
Quote #5557
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Quote #21257
A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is...
Quote #14723
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be,...
Quote #14968
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present– which...
Quote #5148
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.