Famous quotes containing the words weeping and/or philosopher:
“There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.”
—Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755)
“Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)