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Authors of the 17th century

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Thought and Reason
'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
William Shakespeare
WriterBritish1564 · 16th century
4.9 · 6 votes · 126 reads
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Various
A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.
François de La Rochefoucauld
WriterFrench1613 · 17th century
3.2 · 25 votes · 154 reads
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Thought and Reason
A good conscience is a continual feast.
Francis Bacon
PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century
5.0 · 58 votes · 199 reads
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Defects
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Thomas Hobbes
PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century
3.6 · 38 votes · 152 reads
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Art and Culture
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope
PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century
3.2 · 38 votes · 107 reads
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Various
All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal
PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century
4.0 · 44 votes · 183 reads
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Nature
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
Lord Chesterfield
PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century
4.9 · 39 votes · 56 reads
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Government and Politics
'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
Miguel de Cervantes
PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century
4.4 · 39 votes · 168 reads
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Thought and Reason
''Skepticism,'' is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, ''Well, what have we here?''
Robert Burton
EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century
3.5 · 12 votes · 82 reads
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Art and Culture
A multitude of books distracts the mind.
Sir Thomas Browne
AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century
3.6 · 34 votes · 169 reads
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