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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?
Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.
We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.
I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.
Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.
Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.
What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.
Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.
It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.
... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.
Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.
As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.
Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their.
Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.