Quote #8106
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Quote #16198
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason...
Quote #23787
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks...
Quote #19347
We don’t know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to...
Quote #4029
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times...
Quote #29537
I once said cynically of a politician, ‘He’ll doublecross that bridge when he comes...
Quote #23721
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end...
Quote #20448
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our...
Quote #20841
To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
Quote #24068
One should be just as careful in choosing one’s pleasures as in avoiding calamities.