Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Jean Giraudoux, fully Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux
French Novelist, Essayist, Diplomat and Playwright
"Only the mediocre are always at their best."
"Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. "
"The secret of success is sincerity. "
"There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man. "
"Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile. "
"We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. "