Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. Plutarch

Quotes November 23, 2008

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Adversity
Quotations by Plutarch

Public opinion is a second conscience. William R. Alger

Public opinion is a second conscience.OpinionsQuotations by William R. Alger

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.FearQuotations by French Proverb

This is the artist, then, life’s hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty’s miser, glory’s slave.Arts and ArtistsQuotations …

I want death to find me planting my cabbageDeath and DyingQuotations by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.MaterialismQuotations by Henri Frederic Amiel

The power of thought, the magic of the mind.Thoughts and ThinkingQuotations by Lord Byron

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.Teachers and TeachingQuotations by John Locke

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.PollutionQuotations by Rene Dubos

The only prudence in life is concentration.FocusQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.TheoryQuotations by Georg C. Lichtenberg