This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
As it is in himself alone that man can find true and enduring happiness, so in himself alone can he find true and efficient consolation in misfortune.
Character | Consolation | Man | Misfortune | Wisdom |
When a man does a noble act, date him from that. Forget his faults. Let his noble act be the standpoint from which you regard him.
Sorrow comes soon enough without despondency. It does a man no good to carry around a lightning-rod to attract trouble.
Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
To have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years. For what more wilt thou see?
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Absence | Character | Excellence | Qualities |