💬 Quotes

"Chaque homme porte la forme entière de l'humaine condition."

"Philosopher, c'est apprendre à mourir."

"Le plus grand inconvenient de nostre estat, c'est que la mort est couppable de la vie."

"Il n'y a point de description pareille en difficulté, comme la description de soy-mesme."

"For the first time in his life, Flush had met a master who would not be pleased with dead partridges."

"A new language, a vast language of smells, was suddenly opened to him."

"Love is the most remarkable of all the masters; it teaches dogs to know when their mistresses are thinking of them."

"Cruelty is the price we pay for civilization, and it is a price that dogs pay even more than men."

"The spaniel's long, silky ears were full of the hum of Italy; the bells of Florence rang in them day and night."

"Dog and human, they were two-in-one; and yet they were separate; and yet they were wonderful to each other."

"He was of unusual height, with a fair complexion, handsome limbs, rather full eyes, and a somewhat defective mouth; but this was offset by his general health and vigor."

"Veni, vidi, vici ('I came, I saw, I conquered') — expressions of this sort in his despatches once more showed how effectively he had cut short the Zela campaign."

"Let them hate me, provided they fear me."

"What an artist dies in me!"

"He found a city of brick and left it of marble."

"An emperor ought to die standing."

"The problem of finding the longitude was deemed so important that in 1714 the British Parliament offered a gigantic reward—fully twenty thousand pounds—to anyone who could come up with a practical method."

"To find the longitude at sea, you must simply know what time it is aboard ship, and what time it is at the same moment at a place whose longitude is known."

"Galileo’s idea for finding longitude by observing the eclipses of Jupiter's moons was theoretically sound, but practically impossible on the rolling deck of a ship."

"John Harrison was not a trained academic or a master watchmaker of London; he was a carpenter's son from Yorkshire whose intuition for mechanics bypassed centuries of established dogma."