...which will provide a third convenience to the public of being lit from post to post.
1662
It is upon [its] happy return that love breathes [...] a dormant and covered fire that winter concealed within our veins.
1546/1563
The majority has no need to constrain him; it convinces him.
1835-1840
What domination ever appears unnatural to those who possess it?
1869
Fragment of a limestone votive relief
330 BCE - 4 CE
[...] the degree which combination has reached in a country clearly marks the rank it occupies in the hierarchy of the world market.
1847
Men's maxims reveal their hearts.
1746
The mind thinks and arranges at little cost what costs the heart infinitely to implement.
1636
Hence the small number of my works, but also the reflection I have put into them, and the long intervals of time that separate them.
1819
Bronze trowel or cutter
2nd millennium BCE
Amine alone will have my heart: let us be happy in my village.
1764
Let philosophy envelop us with its impregnable rampart: fate [...] will make no breach in it.
63-64 AD
A people without money, if they are enlightened, is commonly a people without tyrants.
1772
The characteristic feature of Wagner's thought is its astonishing unity: a unity that connects writings from different eras [...] through the commonality of the point of view.
1896
Man with a Celestial Globe
1624
It has happened to everyone to be haunted by a piece of music or an insignificant phrase that returns stubbornly, for no valid reason.
1926
It happens much more often, when the affair one undertakes is very good, that it slips away while one defers its execution.
1643-1649
The intellect understands [...] and decides, by means of the images and thoughts it has kept in memory.
384–322 BC
One only buys things insofar as one wishes to use them.
1776
Scene in a Harem (Un Envoi de Serbie)
1876
Good and evil, both natural and moral, are only a matter of taste and feeling.
1742
Philosophers [...] follow virtue not because it is the law, but out of love and because it is in itself lovable.
1661-1676
Respect for the truth forces me to brave this ridicule.
100-120 AD
It is only by listening to the philosopher that the theologian can be armed in advance against all the difficulties that the former could create for him.
1793
Study Head of a Young Woman
ca. 1618–20
Every contract thus presupposes that, behind the parties who commit, there is society ready to intervene to enforce the commitments made.
1893
[The Datery is] a sacred office where, in exchange for money, one can receive benefices, dispensations, graces of the Holy Spirit, and even the right to commit sins.
1768
Never read anything by those arrogant polymaths and muddled minds who have the most horrible flaw, that of the logical paradox.
1879
Each of us indeed has the immediate feeling, real or illusory, of our own free spontaneity [...].
1889
Portrait of a Monk in Prayer
1495
We need a collective life which, while surrounding each human being with warmth, leaves space and silence around them.
1957
It is [...] the duty of good and courageous citizens [...] to close every path to sedition, to fortify the ramparts of the republic.
63 BC
All this has not always [...] been seen very clearly, if the observers had not been preoccupied with prior prejudices.
1817
Why then be indignant, since you have what is best!
c. 108 AD
Young Woman in a Blue and Black Dress
ca. 1863 (?)
If you want to wage war on a prince to whom you are bound by treaties, you will use an attack on one of his friends as a pretext.
1513-1519
To its [history's] faith are committed the examples of our ancestors, the vicissitudes of things, the foundations of civil prudence [...].
1623
[The] words of the Lord can be applied to all Christians who strive for eternal joys through the tears and sufferings of this life.
1263-1264
[This process is seen] as in the composition of ointments and medicines.
c. 253-270 AD
The Three Graces
1807
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
c. 375 BC
My heart, solely occupied with the present, fills its entire capacity, its entire space.
1782-1789
God has chosen [the world] that is the most perfect, that is to say, that which is at the same time the simplest in hypotheses and the richest in phenomena.
1686
His life is spent standing guard over these useless heaps, in worry and in fear. [...] Is this not true misery? And those who suffer it do not feel it.
4th century BC
Marble portrait bust of a boy
ca. 35–50 CE
Your abstractions deceive you: what, do you think that there is an errant figure, a roundness, for example, that makes a ball round [...]?
1707
Children, being by nature as free as their father, [...] may, while in that freedom, choose what society they please.
1690
[The man] is forty years old and is still waiting for a moment of happiness.
1760-1779
In times of public turmoil, men [...] give themselves over to superstition, and seek in the observation of the stars the causes of their misfortune.
1580
Upper part of a female limestone votary
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 6th century BCE