Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. Votes: 10
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. Votes: 9
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. Votes: 8
One may be humble out of pride. Votes: 3
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. Votes: 0
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy. Votes: 0
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. Votes: 0
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. Votes: 0
I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject. Votes: 0
The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe. Votes: 0
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. Votes: 0
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. Votes: 0
We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face. Votes: 0
Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities. Votes: 0
My trade and art is to live. Votes: 0
The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing. Votes: 0
No man is a hero to his own valet. Votes: 0
No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted. Votes: 0
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. Votes: 0
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. Votes: 0
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. Votes: 0
... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it. Votes: 0
A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks. Votes: 0
All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own. Votes: 0
An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand. Votes: 0
And not to serve for a table-talk. Votes: 0
As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive. Votes: 0
As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us. Votes: 0
Books are a languid pleasure. Votes: 0
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature. Votes: 0
Cowardice is the mother of cruelty. Votes: 0
Death pays all debts. Votes: 0
Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art. Votes: 0
Every movement reveals us. Votes: 0
Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be. Votes: 0
From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion. Votes: 0
Habit is a second nature. Votes: 0
Habit is second nature. Votes: 0
He loves little who loves by rule. Votes: 0
I am myself the matter of my book. Votes: 0
I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man. Votes: 0
I do not teach. I relate. Votes: 0
I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please. Votes: 0
I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own. Votes: 0
I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict. Votes: 0
I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions. Votes: 0
If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up. Votes: 0
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways. Votes: 0
Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning. Votes: 0
It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements. Votes: 0
It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account. Votes: 0
It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them. Votes: 0
It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it. Votes: 0
It needs courage to be afraid. Votes: 0
Let every foot have its own shoe. Votes: 0
Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. Votes: 0
Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead. Votes: 0
Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their. Votes: 0
Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape. Votes: 0
May God defend me from myself. Votes: 0
Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind. Votes: 0
Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians. Votes: 0
Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me. Votes: 0
My art and profession is to live. Votes: 0
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous. Votes: 0
No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength. Votes: 0
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. Votes: 0
Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen! Votes: 0
Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens. Votes: 0
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope. Votes: 0
Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach. Votes: 0
Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them. Votes: 0
Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures. Votes: 0
Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?) Votes: 0
The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance. Votes: 0
The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried. Votes: 0
The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them. Votes: 0
The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. Votes: 0
The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change. Votes: 0
The thing I fear most is fear. Votes: 0
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. Votes: 0
There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear. Votes: 0
There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine. Votes: 0
There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions. Votes: 0
Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience. Votes: 0
To philosophize is to doubt. Votes: 0
To philosophize is to learn to die. Votes: 0
To smell, though well, is to stink. Votes: 0
Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth. Votes: 0
We cannot fail in following nature. Votes: 0
What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them? Votes: 0
What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond? Votes: 0
Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them. Votes: 0
Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs. Votes: 0
Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them. Votes: 0
Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark. Votes: 0
Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it. Votes: 0