Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Louis Gabriel Bonald, fully Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald

French Counter-Revolutionary Philosopher and Politician

"Truth is only developed in the hour of need; time, and not man, discovers it."

"Repentance is second innocence."

"There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people."