Quote #10978
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Quote #18373
The world pins no medals on you because of what you know, but it...
Quote #6112
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back...
Quote #10533
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being...
Quote #3247
Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.
Quote #9140
One should be just as careful in choosing one’s pleasures as in avoiding calamities.
Quote #734
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Quote #15537
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the...
Quote #18380
Character is what you are when no one is looking.
Quote #14229
We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying...