For not everything in a contract is contractual.
1893
Never has a man lived who cared less for what we mean by the words glory and success.
1896
Not virtue itself, but the idea of virtue is innate.
1704
[The meadows], in a variegated mood, embellish with a thousand flowers of color their dappled adornment.
1546/1563
Head of a marble Aphrodite statuette
3rd century BCE
Nothing is more charming than that joy which has its origin in devotion, which is a mixture of admiration and love.
1670
A revelation that were true [...] ought to be clear enough to be understood by all of humankind. Is the Bible so clear?
1766
[Some] perish for having preferred what they should have feared to what could not harm them.
c. 108 AD
One is affected differently in judging than in desiring; it is another act of our sensibility.
1817
Madonna and Child
ca. 1470
One can affirm of a thing what one clearly conceives to be contained in the idea of that thing.
1707
Reason always makes men withdraw into themselves for a few moments.
1767
In the circular movement, [the soul] sees justice itself face to face, it sees reason, it sees knowledge.
1953
An oppressed class is the vital condition of every society founded on the antagonism of classes.
1847
Relief from casket
670 BCE - 330 CE
No one wants to be pitied for their mistakes.
1747
The human head is properly a drum that resonates only because it is empty.
1764
For my part, I am ready to learn with the children, without worrying about my age or my reputation.
c. 380 BC
She sees, she smells, she tastes, she hears, without knowing that she has eyes, a nose, a mouth, ears: she does not know that she has a body.
1754
Limestone inscribed relief fragment
3900 BCE - 100 CE
He who does not know to which port he is steering has no favorable wind.
63-64 AD
Although a happy quickness of mind is a gift of nature, art can nevertheless help and perfect it.
1636
Forgetting one's intentions is the most common form of stupidity.
1879
I believe that this disorder [of indiscreet zeal] has caused more harm to Letters than all the fires of the Barbarians.
1745
A Man Seated and Asleep
ca. 1865
All original intelligences are made this way; they are the expression, the flowering of a physiology.
1926
The dependency on things, having no morality, does not harm freedom, and engenders no vices: the dependency on men, being disordered, engenders them all [...].
1762
There is nothing more miserably corrupt than an aristocracy that retains its wealth while losing its power, and which, reduced to vulgar pleasures, still possesses immense leisure.
1835-1840
The excess of dependence to which the woman is reduced inspires [...] the idea that the law has delivered her to them as their thing, to be used at their discretion.
1869
The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara
ca. 1510
[Language] forces the infinite nuances of ever-unstable thought into certain fixed forms [...]: and in fixing them, it takes away their life.
1819
A relative finds a relative, a brother a brother, a wife her husband; each moves away as quickly as possible.
1527
I have always thought that we must concern ourselves with peace, and I have seen with sorrow that it was rejected [...].
46 BC
The text of the first edition [...] represents the initial form of the author's thought.
1643-1662
Limestone statuette of a temple girl
3rd century BCE–1st century CE
After eight years, I ceased to be preoccupied with life and death.
4th century BC
This movement [...] follows as necessarily from the disposition of the organs alone [...] as does that of a clock from the force, situation, and shape of its counterweights and wheels.
1637
Lying alone, and a little below it, obstinacy, seem to me to be those things whose birth and progress one should combat at all costs.
1580
All science is composed of two kinds of knowledge: one is inspired by divinity; the other derives its origin from the senses.
1623
Bronze statuette of Minerva
2nd century CE
Pascal said that the 'geometric spirit' was not enough: the philosopher must add to it the 'spirit of finesse'.
1915
To set out, of one's own accord, to undertake great things.
100-120 AD
There is no one among men who is free. For one is a slave either to wealth or to fortune.
329-323 BC
Away with this insane and impossible contempt for all sensible things, for all external objects! This is not how nature speaks; I recognize no other language here than that of pride.
1742
Lower right corner of a marble sarcophagus, illustrating the discovery of Achilles by Odysseus on the island of Skyros
ca. 160–180 CE
The stars do not produce [...] poverty and wealth, health and sickness, beauty and ugliness, vices and virtues.
c. 253-270 AD
Knowledge is nothing but the perception of the connexion and agreement, or opposition and disagreement, that is found between any of our Ideas.
1689
Chance has and therefore will always have a part in our education, and especially in that of men of genius.
1772
One will never say that someone is more or less clothed or more or less shod by reason of a single shoe or a single garment.
c. 1270
Part of the left foot of a colossal marble statue
3rd–2nd century BCE