Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in easy and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering can
the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and
success achieved.

- Helen Keller

The surest way to be deceived is to
think oneself cleverer than the others.

- François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, 1613 - 1680


We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us,
but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.
- Denis Diderot, 1713 - 1784