Claude Adrien Helvétius
View AuthorMen who are self-sufficient are useless to true friendship.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
View AuthorPleasure and pain are the only two springs that move and will move the world.
Homer
View AuthorHateful to me, like the gates of Hades, is the man who conceals one thing in his heart and says another.
Homer
View AuthorEvery wise man loves the wife he has chosen.
Homer
View AuthorYouth has lively genius and weak judgment.
Homer
View AuthorHaving raised the wall against the will of the immortal gods, it was not meant to stand for a long time.
Homer
View AuthorThere is nothing as sweet as one's own homeland and parents, even if one has the most opulent mansion in a foreign and distant land.
Homer
View AuthorFortune is like a garment: too loose it burdens us, and too tight it oppresses us.
Homer
View AuthorGenius is revealed in adverse fortune; in prosperity, it is concealed.
Homer
View AuthorLet the past be the past.
Homer
View AuthorLike the generation of leaves, so is the generation of men. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, and the forest, greening, produces others when spring arrives: in the same way, one human generation is born and another perishes.
Homer
View AuthorMiserable mortals who, like leaves, are either flourishing and vigorous as they eat the fruits of the earth, or become lifeless and die.