Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state of nature; by the things they see they judge of things very different...

The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem...

One enjoys the good things more to the extent that one goes to them after having labored in advance, for labors are a sauce for good things

Hay un proverbio persa: “Examinar lo que ha sido examinado es ignorancia”. Intentar examinar algo sin los medios para hacerlo es aún peor.

It is perhaps because of the Iranian concept of the home and garden (and not the city or town it is in) as the defining center of life that Iranians find living in a society...