This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
In short, a private education seems the most natural method for the forming of a virtuous man; a public education for making a man of business. The first would furnish out a good subject for PlatoÂ’s republic, the latter a member for a community overrun with artifice and corruption.
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My son! More likely to love your friends, and abhor your enemies: but beware that transcends borders and Taathor.
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Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!
It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.
I loathe a friend ... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.
Old menÂ’s prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.