Quote #10456
A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.
Quote #3105
We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
Quote #10354
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Quote #8933
In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities...
Quote #10965
At a certain age some people’s minds close up they live on their intellectual...
Quote #4339
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Quote #10860
History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about...
Quote #19508
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions...
Quote #5648
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
Quote #20269
Our friends show us what we can do our enemies teach us what we...