Quote #33927
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
Quote #12949
No one now dies of fatal truths; there are too many antidotes to them.
Quote #5385
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Quote #17422
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Quote #27100
O, what a heaven is love, O, what a hell
Quote #3508
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.)
Quote #21656
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that...
Quote #17961
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The...
Quote #17684
I kep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew) Their names are...
Quote #4711
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men...