Quote #22450
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
Quote #4559
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
Quote #33981
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography...
Quote #14724
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a...
Quote #23696
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have...
Quote #34740
Life’s dirty. Life’s unclean you know. It’s birth, it’s sex, it’s the intestinal tract....
Quote #19484
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Quote #18156
I can sympathise with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something...
Quote #22270
The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence cynicism.
Quote #16636
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in...