Quote #12690
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in...
Quote #30101
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
Quote #12136
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune...
Quote #10568
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place...
Quote #12652
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Quote #19451
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Quote #34906
There’s nothing sooner dry than women’s tears.
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Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to...
Quote #5765
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
Quote #7938
I prefer complexity to certainty, cheerful mysteries to sullen facts.