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There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger.

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

Firsts Quotes

The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.

What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, “Somebody else’s”.

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else’s.

Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.

It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.

A man of genius belongs to no period and no country. He speaks the language of nature, which is always everywhere the same.

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.

Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.

Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

Strong Quotes

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man’s value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.

He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.

Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.

It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is.

A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.

Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

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