Every artists wants to be applauded

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

Posterity is always just.

Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less perfect, but perhaps more useful: Do good to yourself with as little prejudice as you can to others.

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.