Quote #3476
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
Quote #5847
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind...
Quote #5787
The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with...
Quote #22166
As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn’t thereHe wasn’t...
Quote #25557
But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness,...
Quote #23416
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is...
Quote #7463
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not...
Quote #30708
Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for...
Quote #9319
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Quote #27762
We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively...