Quote #17223
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
Quote #19942
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is...
Quote #14090
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know...
Quote #15043
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Quote #7757
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is...
Quote #16185
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and...
Quote #6677
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of...
Quote #27825
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is...
Quote #11983
The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts,...