Quote #2848
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Quote #7625
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can...
Quote #22606
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
Quote #30948
The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half...
Quote #31352
I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that...
Quote #11783
The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.
Quote #26314
Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or...
Quote #9500
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his...
Quote #5711
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more...
Quote #12244
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It...