Quote #9164
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
Quote #1367
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on...
Quote #13808
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.
Quote #11476
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and...
Quote #4443
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live...
Quote #25006
Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Quote #1361
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
Quote #4740
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk...
Quote #17253
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Quote #7768
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.