Quote #7592
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
Quote #27120
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and...
Quote #21173
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power...
Quote #18156
I can sympathise with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something...
Quote #13580
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
Quote #5712
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
Quote #16411
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual...
Quote #15095
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
Quote #28076
One of the many ways of managing peers is to knock them down so...
Quote #18467
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them