Quote #9295
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal...
Quote #27174
Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice-cold...
Quote #21746
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one’s...
Quote #7476
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Quote #32308
I look at my myself and see a stone, I look at my friends...
Quote #15023
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his...
Quote #23201
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes...
Quote #34912
Words are a heavy thing…they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn’t fly.
Quote #26324
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
Quote #6367
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.