MondayJan 26, 2026
Quotes: 53419 Authors: 9969
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.
The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.
In plain truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice.
To know how to live is all my calling and all my art.
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
We call that against nature which cometh against custom. But there is nothing, whatsoever it be, that is not According to nature.
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, And yet he will be making gods by dozens.
Marriage is a covenant which hath nothing free but the entrance.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
One may be humble out of pride.
Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.
The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.
The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from it.
In farewells we heat above ordinary our affections to the things we forego.
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.
Whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present?
Who is not sure of his memory should not attempt lying.
Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
We have need of very little learning to have a good mind.
The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.
Time is the sovereign physician of our passions.
The pursuit of pleasure Is the most pleasant pleasure.
There is no man so good who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the law, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
The word is half his that speaks, And half his that hears it.
It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, But we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Extreme patience of long-sufferance, if it once come to be dissolved, produceth most bitter and excessive revenges.
We must keep a little back shop... where we may establish our own true liberty.
What do I know?
A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
A wise man loses nothing, if he but saves himself.
All actions beyond the ordinary limits are subject to a sinister interpretation.
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
Art and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found And perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
As an enemy is made more fierce by our flight, so Pain grows proud to see us knuckle under it. She will surrender upon much better terms to those who make head against her.
As plants are suffocated and drowned with too much moisture, and lamps with too much oil, so is the active part of the understanding with too much study.
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
Let us permit nature to have her way; she understands her Business better than we do.
Dreams are the true Interpreters of our Inclinations; But there is Art required to sort and understand them.
He who establishes his arguments by noise and command shows that reason is weak.
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and Adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which to-day are fables to us!
Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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