Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Vincent Voiture
French Poet and Writer of Prose
"Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things which she seems to give us."
"The richest endowments of the mind are temperance, prudence, and fortitude. Prudence is a universal virtue, which enters into the composition of all the rest and where she is not, fortitude loses its name and nature."