“Velvet and gilding do not make a throne, nor gold and jewels a sceptre.”

— Anthony Trollope, The Warden (1855), Chapter 14, "Mount Olympus"

About Anthony Trollope

1815 – 1882

English novelist, author of the Chronicles of Barsetshire.

“The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.”

“Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.”

“No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.”

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”

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“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”