“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.”
― Rosemary and Rue
― Rosemary and Rue
“What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?”
― Thoreau Journal 9
― Thoreau Journal 9
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