Quote #4640
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of...
Quote #2083
He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.
Quote #22614
I should rather labor as another’s serf, in the home of a man without...
Quote #11559
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Quote #16278
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Quote #19787
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Quote #8732
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty...
Quote #14403
Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.
Quote #4641
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Quote #26218
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things...