Quote #24027
The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.
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It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get...
Quote #23449
To save a man’s life against his will is the same as killing him.
Quote #17225
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They...
Quote #33988
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what...
Quote #16198
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason...
Quote #24474
Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
Quote #18675
If you don’t learn to laugh at troubles, you won’t have anything to laugh...
Quote #8835
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments...
Quote #25156
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided...