Quote #24299
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits....
Quote #32831
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully...
Quote #4770
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Quote #18204
He who can’t endure the bad will not live to see the good.
Quote #21281
Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds...
Quote #8129
People unfit for freedom – who cannot do much with it – are hungry...
Quote #23045
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal...
Quote #23517
Two dangers constantly threaten the world order and disorder.
Quote #11463
Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.
Quote #20674
Man’s main task is to give birth to himself.