Quote #32127
The awareness of the ambiguity of one’s highest achievements (as well as one’s deepest...
Quote #15993
Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.
Quote #11371
Books may well be the only true magic.
Quote #14905
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set...
Quote #30879
It is not a fish until it is on the bank.
Quote #19740
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may...
Quote #12459
You cannot keep a man down without staying down with him.
Quote #16125
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself,...
Quote #24063
Use power to curb power.
Quote #16864
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool.