It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. Votes: 10
Justice is the truth in action. Votes: 9
Imagination is the eye of the soul. Votes: 9
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity. Votes: 0
Fear loves the idea of danger. Votes: 0
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray. Votes: 0
Innocence is always unsuspicious. Votes: 0
Work like you don't need the money. Votes: 0
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it Votes: 0
Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books. Votes: 0
To teach is to learn twice. Votes: 0
Tenderness is the rest of passion. Votes: 0
Ask the young. They know everything. Votes: 0
Virtue is the health of the soul. Votes: 0
Never cut what you can untie. Votes: 0
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty. Votes: 0
Everything that is exact is short. Votes: 0
We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible. Votes: 0
The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused. Votes: 0
Our life is woven wind. Votes: 0
One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man. Votes: 0
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. Votes: 0
Justice is the right of the weakest. Votes: 0
We disjoint the mind like the body. Votes: 0
There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment. Votes: 0
Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection. Votes: 0
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. Votes: 0
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song. Votes: 0
Slander is the solace of malignity. Votes: 0
Heaven is for those who think of it. Votes: 0
Space is the stature of God. Votes: 0
Ornaments were invented by modesty. Votes: 0
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it. Votes: 0
To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap. Votes: 0
Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty. Votes: 0
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? Votes: 0
There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad. Votes: 0
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom. Votes: 0
Close your eyes and you will see. Votes: 0
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven. Votes: 0
Chance generally favors the prudent. Votes: 0
The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness. Votes: 0
Politeness smooths wrinkles. Votes: 0