Quote #3919
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Quote #14832
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
Quote #9988
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of...
Quote #14312
When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is...
Quote #8002
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have...
Quote #18033
The awareness of the ambiguity of one’s highest achievements (as well as one’s deepest...
Quote #14137
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
Quote #486
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own...
Quote #645
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between...
Quote #8616
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. – Epistulae ad Lucilium