Quote #8368
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain...
Quote #16552
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Quote #21193
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
Quote #5615
Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is...
Quote #13123
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid...
Quote #12754
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Quote #21441
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
Quote #17128
Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment —...
Quote #11051
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Quote #15112
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it...