Quote #5142
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent...
Quote #20604
We don’t get offered crises, they arrive.
Quote #18936
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred...
Quote #19582
All you get from a circular argument is dizzy.
Quote #4174
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no...
Quote #8662
We do not write because we want to we write because we have to.
Quote #5693
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites...
Quote #21605
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.
Quote #15720
Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were...