By setting [the fine], it would be to admit guilt.
4th century BC
In everything that is not under your control, be full of confidence; but in everything that is, be on your guard.
c. 108 AD
Often, by wanting to keep everything, one loses everything, and by being unwilling to part with false customs [...] one gives enemies the opportunity to shake the good [...] traditions.
c. 1552-1553
Bentham's dictum, 'everybody to count for one, nobody for more than one,' might be written under the principle of utility as an explanatory commentary.
1861
A Patrician Couple
1730
Delicacy comes essentially from the soul.
1746
He who blames the whole of the world by considering only its parts is therefore unjust; he should examine the parts in their relation to the whole, to see if they are in accord and in harmony with it.
c. 253-270 AD
Everything that has some relation to beauty must be withdrawn from the course of time. Beauty is eternity here below.
1942
My position was not my self, my self was not my position. Favor and disfavor were attached to my position, not to my self.
4th century BC
Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting
ca. 1663–65
[...] we sometimes sense the truth before we have grasped its demonstration. We discern it by instinct.
1755
All religions claim to emanate from heaven; all forbid the use of reason [...]; all claim to be true, to the exclusion of others.
1766
The essence of the soul [...] is entirely in the idea of the body existing in act.
1661-1676
It is commerce that has gradually established the naval forces, by which the English are masters of the seas.
1733
The Dispatch-Bearer
?1879
We must not forget that the point of view of critique is entirely different from that of psychology...
1896
It is enough to define a lie as a willfully false statement made to another man.
1797
When the crowd turns its thumb upwards, to please it, the gladiators must kill each other.
1580
A man is best portrayed in his career, in his works, and in his words.
1896
Man Weighing Gold
ca. 1515–20
The knowledge of Man cannot extend beyond his own experience.
1689
[...] whatever the desire, or even the need, I may have for it.
1741-1784
The essence of its worship consists in the love of the God it adores; which is a most singular character, and which visibly distinguishes it from all other Religions.
1670
If two individuals were perfectly similar [...] and indistinguishable in themselves, there would be no principle of individuation; and I would even dare to say that there would be no individual distinction [...] under this condition.
1704
Portrait of a Member of the de Thou Family
1540
To please mediocre people, one must generally lend oneself to common errors, conform to customs, and resemble everyone else.
1758
[...] we are more envious of those who seem to make more progress in virtue.
c. 72-126 AD
[Propositions] are sometimes made by reason of concomitance, [...] sometimes by reason of cause.
c. 1270
It is a contemptible lightness and baseness of mind to believe blindly in the authority of men on subjects that depend on reason.
1674-1675
Gold pin with pomegranate head
7th–6th century BCE
[A remedy is] certain in the hands of a good practitioner [...] but [it is a] deadly instrument in the hands of an ignorant person.
1623
To compensate for the departure of the troops [...] a leader capable of commanding the army is needed.
1498
Glory flees from those who seek it and follows those who neglect it, because the former accommodate the taste of their contemporaries, while the others confront it.
1851
It is impossible for us to see around our own corner: it is a hopeless curiosity that wants to know what other kinds of intellects and perspectives there might be.
1882
Dr. Brian Walton (born about 1600, died 1661)
1657
This act of judging consists in seeing that the idea I have of one thing belongs to the idea I have of another.
1817
There is nothing which is, in itself, beautiful or ugly, worthy of love or hatred [...] these different qualifications depend solely on the sentiments and affections of each man [...].
1742
If the human mind undertook to examine [...] all the particular cases that strike it, it would soon be lost in the midst of the immensity of details and would see nothing.
1835-1840
Outlawed again, Marx took refuge in London, where he settled.
March 17, 1883
The Forest at Pontaubert
1881
Wherever I stop, I resume the thread of my thoughts; and I occupy my mind with some wholesome reflection.
63-64 AD
It is the masterpiece of insight to understand another's heart; it is also the ultimate effort of self-mastery to keep one's own heart unknown to the most skilled scrutineers.
1636
[...] metaphor, ornament, and the other forms [...] will remove vulgarity and baseness from the style; the proper term will give it clarity.
c. 335 BC
It is because you are a fool that you are silent, but you are not a fool for being silent.
86-82 BC
Bathsheba at Her Bath
ca. 1700
[The only] remedy [...] is to divert one's imagination and senses as much as possible, and to use only the understanding to consider them.
1643-1649
Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium. [I prefer dangerous liberty to quiet servitude.]
1762
If, when these various jobs were created, women had been called to them, we would be accustomed to it [...] and it would seem no more singular to us to see them sitting in Parliament than behind a counter.
1926
Theft can only exist to the extent that property exists.
1893
Wall painting fragment
1st century CE