- Feed http://quotationsbook.com/ Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22287/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22287/ <![CDATA[Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/7170/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/7170/ <![CDATA[Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2952/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2952/ <![CDATA[Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/26219/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/26219/ <![CDATA[Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30294/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30294/ <![CDATA[All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39005/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39005/ <![CDATA[Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20914/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20914/ <![CDATA[While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30251/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30251/ <![CDATA[To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10239/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10239/ <![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19331/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19331/ <![CDATA[Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35357/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35357/ <![CDATA[Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/21862/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/21862/ <![CDATA[The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32388/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32388/ <![CDATA[Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34294/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34294/ <![CDATA[Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34488/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34488/ <![CDATA[Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35746/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35746/ <![CDATA[It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35747/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35747/ <![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33407/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33407/ <![CDATA[Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33681/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33681/ <![CDATA[The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33136/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33136/ <![CDATA[Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33406/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33406/ <![CDATA[This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30795/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30795/ <![CDATA[Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30794/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30794/ <![CDATA[Work is often the father of pleasure.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30655/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30655/ <![CDATA[The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29785/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29785/ <![CDATA[Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29507/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29507/ <![CDATA[Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36877/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36877/ <![CDATA[He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37272/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37272/ <![CDATA[One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/8959/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/8959/ <![CDATA[To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/8917/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/8917/ <![CDATA[Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/7997/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/7997/ <![CDATA[Common sense is not so common.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/7265/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/7265/ <![CDATA[If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/956/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/956/ <![CDATA[You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42870/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42870/ <![CDATA[Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42349/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42349/ <![CDATA[It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40632/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40632/ <![CDATA[In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/38307/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/38307/ <![CDATA[The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/38013/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/38013/ <![CDATA[Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37997/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37997/ <![CDATA[The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/6091/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/6091/