Joseph Conrad
View AuthorThe author only writes half of the book. The reader must take care of the other half.
Benjamin Constant
View AuthorIt is tough, it is painful, not to be loved when one still loves, but it is much tougher to still be loved when one no longer loves.
Benjamin Constant
View AuthorMeditation strengthens the strong and weakens the weak.
Benjamin Constant
View AuthorWhen the age of passions has passed, what else can we desire but to escape from life with the least possible amount of pain?
Benjamin Constant
View AuthorFreedom is nothing more than what society has the right to do and the state has no right to prevent.
Benjamin Constant
View AuthorThe arbitrary is not only harmful when used for crime. Employed against crime, it is also dangerous.
Benjamin Constant
View AuthorWe are such fickle creatures that we end up experiencing the feelings we pretend.
Benjamin Constant
View AuthorWe must decide, act, and be silent.
James Cook
View AuthorHow wise are those who are only foolish in love!
John Calvin Coolidge
View AuthorIt would be foolish to pretend that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can make them, and serious ones. The people know it and pay the consequences; but compared to the mistakes that have been committed by any kind of autocracy, these others are unimportant.
Diego Luís Córdoba
View AuthorIgnorance leads to servitude, education leads to freedom.
Pierre Corneille
View AuthorYou must have a good memory after lying.