Quote #22767
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not...
Quote #29038
Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would...
Quote #15312
It is not a lucky word, this name “impossible”; no good comes of those...
Quote #4259
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is...
Quote #7476
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Quote #1356
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion,...
Quote #19142
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to...
Quote #32645
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
Quote #17768
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and...
Quote #23455
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. (You may drive nature out with a pitchfork,...