• Thought and Reason

  Fools are without number.

  4.0 · 55 votes · 166 reads

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• Feelings

  Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

  4.2 · 17 votes · 139 reads

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• Defects

  I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

  4.4 · 26 votes · 139 reads

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• Art and Culture

  If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

  3.4 · 55 votes · 124 reads

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• Feelings

  It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

  3.9 · 8 votes · 24 reads

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• Defects

  It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

  3.5 · 33 votes · 180 reads

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• Feelings

  Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason -you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to t

  3.6 · 21 votes · 0 reads

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• Feelings

  Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

  4.8 · 58 votes · 6 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

  3.4 · 31 votes · 149 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

  5.0 · 20 votes · 128 reads

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• Nature

  Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

  3.5 · 9 votes · 91 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

  4.0 · 8 votes · 184 reads

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• Virtues

  The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

  3.0 · 10 votes · 194 reads

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• Science and Technology

  The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

  4.9 · 61 votes · 113 reads

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• Time

  The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

  3.7 · 32 votes · 84 reads

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• Art and Culture

  This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further through

  3.1 · 12 votes · 127 reads

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• Government and Politics

  War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

  3.8 · 20 votes · 167 reads

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• Society

  What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

  4.1 · 36 votes · 144 reads

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• Art and Culture

  When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

  3.3 · 39 votes · 32 reads

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• Government and Politics

  You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.

  4.1 · 37 votes · 86 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Your library is your paradise.

  3.0 · 55 votes · 114 reads

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What they wrote about

• Literature3 of their quotes
• Fools2 of their quotes
• Habit1 of their quote
• Intelligence1 of their quote
• Religion1 of their quote
• Genius1 of their quote