Quote #7600
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
Quote #2043
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Quote #24323
Possunt quia posse videntur. (They can because they think they can, from The Aeneid)
Quote #18418
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds,...
Quote #11702
Whenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortous executions, the...
Quote #16214
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough....
Quote #4223
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Quote #10242
This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not...
Quote #23156
In wealth many friends in poverty, not even relatives.
Quote #5325
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.