Quote #11015
What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears...
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Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the...
Quote #7562
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or...
Quote #379
How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
Quote #6721
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you...
Quote #17958
I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies...
Quote #13719
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Quote #13970
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others.
Quote #28817
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how...
Quote #25821
Don’t cling to fame. You’re just borrowing it. It’s like money. You’re going to...