Feelings
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.4.1 · 12 votes · 2 reads
Thought and Reason
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.4.3 · 36 votes · 7 reads
Feelings
May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.3.2 · 52 votes · 17 reads
Thought and Reason
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.4.6 · 61 votes · 153 reads
Defects
One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.3.5 · 15 votes · 87 reads
Virtues
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.3.7 · 26 votes · 141 reads
Feelings
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.4.1 · 44 votes · 161 reads
Defects
Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.3.7 · 14 votes · 6 reads
Various
Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.3.0 · 62 votes · 84 reads
Science and Technology
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.4.2 · 32 votes · 113 reads
Government and Politics
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.4.2 · 62 votes · 125 reads
Thought and Reason
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.3.4 · 39 votes · 99 reads
Society
The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.3.9 · 17 votes · 109 reads
Various
The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.4.9 · 20 votes · 67 reads
Thought and Reason
The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.3.6 · 19 votes · 89 reads
Thought and Reason
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.3.3 · 11 votes · 141 reads
Thought and Reason
To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.4.4 · 19 votes · 177 reads
Virtues
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.3.5 · 63 votes · 129 reads
Nature
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.3.1 · 34 votes · 100 reads
Thought and Reason
Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.3.5 · 21 votes · 55 reads
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