Present Stem

Famous quotes containing the words present and/or stem:

“I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man’s power for life only from a present capricious inclination.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

“Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)