Quote #16106
A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is...
Quote #17098
Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses...
Quote #18695
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
Quote #16159
Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner...
Quote #3109
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of...
Quote #6172
Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in...
Quote #5158
Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I...
Quote #8292
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought...
Quote #21222
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Quote #15996
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always...