Quote #8672
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own...
Quote #21195
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling...
Quote #6647
We cannot be sure that we have something to live for unless we are...
Quote #13930
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end...
Quote #29009
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, That those who...
Quote #22309
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for...
Quote #385
The only aspect of our travels that is interesting to others is disaster.
Quote #22584
It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did...
Quote #30697
Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control...