Quote #6917
Do not employ handsome servants.
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There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course....
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in...
Quote #11865
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect,...
Quote #9222
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature,...
Quote #354
The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing — and...
Quote #8698
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full...
Quote #23633
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Quote #3198
Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the...
Quote #9643
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as...