It seems [...] more in conformity with human nature to base the expectation of another life on the sentiments of a well-ordered soul, than to base one's conduct on the hope of another life.
1766
However, who can be sure of what goes on in the hearts of kings, and of what determines their will?
1746
The cultivation of the land promises [...] almost certain results, but slow ones. One gets rich from it only little by little and with difficulty.
1835-1840
What is duration within us? A qualitative multiplicity, with no resemblance to number; an organic development which is nevertheless not a growing quantity.
1889
Portrait of a Man (Sir Ralph Sadler?)
1535
April, the sweet hope of fruits [...] which nourish their young infancy.
1546/1563
In the body of Tuo the Ugly, there lived a perfect latent virtue. It was this virtue that drew people to him, despite the repulsive form of his body.
4th century BC
Each individual gives the name of 'mind' only to the set of ideas that are useful to them, either as instructive or as pleasant.
1758
It is the history of the human spirit, written by a man of genius for the use of people of wit.
1751
Chlorite pestle
ca. 1600–1050 BCE
The main purpose of my journey was to see Rome.
1774
The devils themselves [...] preferred to return to burn in hell than to live in this world under the orders of such a woman.
1518-1527
Broad and beautiful things can please for a long time; those that are merely pretty and cute soon tire the ear, the most disdainful of our senses.
86-82 BC
Sacred beings only are what they are because they are represented as such in the mind. Should we cease to believe in them, they would be as if they were not.
1912
Pendant: head of a woman
5th century BCE
It is not the diversity of opinions, which one cannot prevent, but the refusal of tolerance, which one could grant, that has been the source of all the wars [...] on the matter of religion.
1686
Sickness is the natural state of the Christian.
1670
The more one has false principles of honor & Religion, the more one will be dissatisfied with oneself, and consequently the more miserable one will be.
1745
[Witty remarks and bold actions] have often been like wings to suddenly reach the summit of greatness.
1636
Still Life with Cheese
probably late 1870s
To be something, to be oneself and always one, one must act as one speaks; one must always be decided on the course to take, take it firmly, and always follow it.
1762
Of all the things proper to mortify human vanity, there is perhaps none more humiliating than to see the weakness [...] of the efforts of art [...] when it comes to equalling nature.
1742
I do not think that the study of Mathematics is more apt than any other to make the mind just.
1817
When we come to know God, who alone has all perfection in Himself, we must necessarily love Him.
c. 1660
Bronze floral element
ca. 550–500 BCE
The feeling of justice may be a particular instinct, and yet require, like all our other instincts, the supervision and enlightenment of a higher reason.
1861
Moderate exercises promote health.
End of the 4th century BC
This idea of unity [...] was, in fact, very widespread, especially in the smaller states.
1851-1852
A man is best portrayed in his career, in his works, and in his words.
1896
Limestone head of a girl
3rd century BCE
We praise only the irrational part of the soul, insofar as it can serve and does serve the rational part by obeying it.
4th century BC
I know how subject we are to be mistaken in what touches us, and also how much the judgments of our friends ought to be suspected when they are in our favor.
1637
The artist [...] must depersonalize himself, be a man of no party, no fashion, no era, but one through whom the soul of all circulates.
1870
We see that, in games [...] the first rules, the first laws are purely positive, purely conventional, rules that must be adopted purely and simply, and without dispute.
1623
Portrait of a Man
1781
God has made from the beginning each of these two substances of such a nature that by following only its own laws [...], it nevertheless agrees with the other.
1696
Each language expresses the character of the people who speak it.
1746
The entire universe is object only with regard to a subject, perception only in relation to a perceiving mind, in a word, it is pure representation.
1819
The reality of the sensible universe is constituted by a necessity whose laws are the symbolic expression of the mysteries of faith.
1953
Gabbro mace head
ca. 2500–1900 BCE
The city was merely exchanging one tyranny for another.
100-120 AD
To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
63-64 AD
Show me a man who is at once sick and happy, in peril and happy, dying and happy, in exile and happy, disgraced and happy. Show him to me.
c. 108 AD
Pity stands in opposition to the tonic emotions which heighten our vitality: it has a depressive effect. We lose strength when we feel pity.
1888
Limestone statuette of a female votary
3900 BCE - 100 CE
We are active and passive because we are in the one animal and we constitute parts of it.
c. 253-270 AD
The conviction of certainty [...] is a sure testimony of madness and extreme uncertainty.
1674-1675
The Lord's head represents the sublime height of his divinity, and his feet the humility of his incarnation; or again, the head is Jesus Christ himself, the feet are the poor who are his members.
1263-1264
[...] how can it be that Christians continue to sin, as if they had not been redeemed [...]? From which we see that [this mystery] is impenetrable to reason, its effectiveness disproven by experience.
1766
Implement, cone-shaped
7000 BCE - 330 CE