Quote #16866
The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows...
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It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the...
Quote #3914
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and...
Quote #13613
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually...
Quote #828
Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses...
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Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions… that laws were...
Quote #180
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Quote #1676
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.
Quote #18606
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Quote #3175
Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.