Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.
Reading provides the mind with only materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read our own.
To love the truth for the sake of truth is the main part of human perfection in this world, and the main seed of all other virtues.
Reading provides the mind with important material of knowledge. And it allows us to think about how to make what we read become our own.
How pleasant it would be a world in which no one was allowed to operate in the stock market unless they had passed an exam in Greek economics and poetry, and in which politicians were required to have a solid knowledge of history and modern novels!
I oppose all superstition, whether Muslim, Christian, Jewish, or Buddhist.
The most enlightened among the Greeks held that slavery was justifiable as long as the masters were Greek and the slaves were barbarians, but the opposite case was contrary to nature.