This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.
The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
Anger |
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Judgment | Understand |
But woe to him, who left to moan, reviews the hours of brightness gone.
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.
We are generally so much pleased with any little accomplishments, either of body or mind, which have once made us remarkable in the world, that we endeavor to persuade ourselves it is not in the power of time to rob us of them. We are eternally pursuing the same methods which first procured us the applauses of mankind. It is from this notion that an author writes on, though he is come to dotage; without ever considering that his memory is impaired, and that he hath lost that life, and those spirits, which formerly raised his fancy and fired his imagination. The same folly hinders a man from submitting his behavior to his age, and makes Clodius, who was a celebrated dancer at five-and-twenty, still love to hobble in a minuet, though he is past threescore. It is this, in a word, which fills the town with elderly fops and superannuated coquettes.
Human nature | Life | Life | Man | Nature | Nothing | Will |
I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity.
It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.
Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.
Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.
Eugenio Maria de Hostos (y Bonilla)
Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need.