"Every one complains of a poor memory,..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of wickedness thanothers. Hence it is that public robberies, plunderings, and sackings have been looked upon as excellencies and noble achievements, and the seizing of whole countries, however unjustly and barbarously, is dignified with the glorious name of gaining conquests.”

“Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.”

“Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.”

“Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.”

“Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?”

“This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole,and what is my nature, and how this is related to that, and whatkind of a part it is of what kind of a whole; and that there is no onewho hinders thee from always doing and saying the things which areaccording to the nature of which thou art a part.”

“If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.”

“Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.”

“What is a bad thing anyway? A bad thing is something that is different than what I want. Who gets to decide what the bad thing is? Jerry and Esther watched the mother bird lay her eggs in the nest, and then the neighbor's cat ate the baby bird. Esther said "bad cat!" And the cat said, "good bird!”