Quote #16688
Life is wasted on the living.
Quote #6770
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Quote #31074
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls...
Quote #19820
A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
Quote #29091
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and...
Quote #9116
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well...
Quote #28943
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.
Quote #19108
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in...
Quote #8025
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
Quote #29323
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to...