Frederic William Farrar Quotes

Frederic William Farrar — Indian Theologian

Frederic William Farrar was a cleric of the Church of England, schoolteacher and author. He was a pallbearer at the funeral of Charles Darwin in 1882. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles secret society... (wikipedia)

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.

Frederic William Farrar Quotes

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