We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. Votes: 11
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. Votes: 8
A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books. Votes: 0
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. Votes: 0
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals. Votes: 0
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. Votes: 0
God, who winds up our sundials ... Votes: 0
A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers Votes: 0
A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it! Votes: 0
Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing. Votes: 0
Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones. Votes: 0
Delicacy in woman is strength. Votes: 0
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp. Votes: 0
He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection. Votes: 0
How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers? Votes: 0
I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does. Votes: 0
Ideas too are a life and a world. Votes: 0
If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve Votes: 0
Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it? Votes: 0
It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit. Votes: 0
Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive. Votes: 0
Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking. Votes: 0
Non cogitant, ergo non sunt. Votes: 0
Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven. Votes: 0
One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart. Votes: 0
Reading means borrowing. Votes: 0
The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them. Votes: 0
The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant. Votes: 0
The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring. Votes: 0
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it. Votes: 0
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. Votes: 0
The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing. Votes: 0
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done. Votes: 0
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. Votes: 0
Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. Votes: 0
What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance. Votes: 0
When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book? Votes: 0
Those who never have time do least Votes: 0
Too much is unwholesome. Votes: 0