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 | "Our work is the presentation of our capabilities." | |
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Found in the topic Work.
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| "Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive." | |
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Found in the topic Gratitude.
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| "The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest
navigators." | |
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Found in the topic Sailor.
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| "Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of
thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a
book." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world,
were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as
equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful." | |
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Found in the topic Philosophy.
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| "Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school
of genius." | |
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Found in the topic Conversation.
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| "Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those
to whom it has been refused." | |
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Found in the topic Beauty.
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| "All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance." | |
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Found in the topic Progress.
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| "I was never less alone than when by myself." | |
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Found in the topic Lonely.
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| "The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverable lost, when
the legislative power is nominated by the executive." | |
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Found in the topic Constitution.
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| "Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery." | |
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Found in the topic Distance.
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| "If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world
during which the condition of the human race was most happy and
prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the
death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. [96?180 A.D.]" | |
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Found in the topic History.
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| "The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in
particular." | |
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Found in the topic Probability.
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| "I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I
have no respect." | |
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Found in the topic Argument.
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| "It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst
the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in
the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the
city first started to my mind." | |
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Found in the topic Rome.
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