Quote #29319
Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us...
Quote #22592
The single best augury is to fight for one’s country.
Quote #20388
The essence of a general’s job is to assist in developing a clear sense...
Quote #19793
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
Quote #15008
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Quote #31461
The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance...
Quote #3113
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
Quote #24871
General Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life … I am terribly...
Quote #29327
Wealth and children are the adornment of life.
Quote #2760
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught...