Great Throughts Treasury

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

Pierre Claude Boiste, fully Pierre Claude Victor Boiste

French Lexicographer and Editor of the French Universal Dictionary

"He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more."

"To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless."

"Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life."

"The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them."