Quote #14738
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation...
Quote #18760
The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Quote #12662
Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.
Quote #19530
But pain… seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead...
Quote #17480
It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by...
Quote #5136
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Quote #15264
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea,...
Quote #10347
He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to...
Quote #6303
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness,...
Quote #899
There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, ‘How...