Quote #15979
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
Quote #10092
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict...
Quote #28452
Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace....
Quote #2311
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me...
Quote #17486
Men’s natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.
Quote #12496
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never...
Quote #6778
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if...
Quote #10068
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Quote #17805
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Quote #79
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.