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)
“It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer a doctor who is an optimist and who gives me remedies that will improve my health. Philosophical consolations are, after all, useless against real ailments. I know only two kinds of sickness—physical and moral: all the others are purely in the imagination.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)