This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.
The refusal of praise is only the wish to be praised twice.
Conversation | People | Reason | Thinking |
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
Good | Moderation | People | Prosperity | Moderation |
Only the contemptible fear contempt.
Conversation | People | Think |
Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.
Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful.
People |
There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.
We seldom find persons whom we acknowledge to be possessed of good sense, except those who agree with us in opinion.
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.
Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully.
There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.
Talking |
Most women do not grieve so much for the death of their lovers for love's-sake, as to show they were worthy of being beloved.
That conduct sometimes seems ridiculous, in the eyes of the world, the secret reasons for which, may, in reality, be wise and solid.
People |
The extreme pleasure we take in talking of ourselves should make us fear that we give very little to those who listen to us.