ThursdayNov 12, 2026
Quotes: 53419 Authors: 9969
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?
How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which to-day are fables to us!
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.
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.
He who establishes his arguments by noise and command shows that reason is weak.
Dreams are the true Interpreters of our Inclinations; But there is Art required to sort and understand them.
Let us permit nature to have her way; she understands her Business better than we do.
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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.
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.
Art and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found And perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
All actions beyond the ordinary limits are subject to a sinister interpretation.
A wise man loses nothing, if he but saves himself.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.
What do I know?
We must keep a little back shop... where we may establish our own true liberty.
Extreme patience of long-sufferance, if it once come to be dissolved, produceth most bitter and excessive revenges.
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, But we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
The word is half his that speaks, And half his that hears it.
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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.
The pursuit of pleasure Is the most pleasant pleasure.
Time is the sovereign physician of our passions.
The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.
We have need of very little learning to have a good mind.
Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
Who is not sure of his memory should not attempt lying.
Whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present?
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
In farewells we heat above ordinary our affections to the things we forego.
The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from it.
The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.
Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.
One may be humble out of pride.
Of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Marriage is a covenant which hath nothing free but the entrance.
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, And yet he will be making gods by dozens.
We call that against nature which cometh against custom. But there is nothing, whatsoever it be, that is not According to nature.
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
To know how to live is all my calling and all my art.
In plain truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice.
The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.
We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.
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.
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