May he whose integrity was never in doubt not see, at sixty, his name condemned to dishonor.
81 BC
The practical intellect is compared to artificial things, as the measure to the thing measured; conversely, the speculative intellect is compared to the things it conceives as the thing measured to the measure.
c. 1270
The word 'to succeed' was obviously missing.
c. 1552-1553
In the world, everything acts according to what it is, according to its constitution [...] In this, man is no exception in nature: he too has his immutable character.
1840
The Fair at Bezons
ca. 1733
A man who has learned to divest himself even of his personality can travel the entire world without experiencing conflict.
4th century BC
To resemble God, but God crucified.
1947
In all else, his virtue shines brightly; and his temperance, his contempt for riches, make him comparable to all the virtuous and disinterested citizens Greece ever had.
100-120 AD
It takes great qualities to make a hero.
1636
Bronze statuette of a warrior
7th–6th century BCE
One must clearly distinguish the strength and beauty of words from the strength and evidence of reasons.
1674-1675
The word is altered when a part of the uttered word is rejected and another is made arbitrarily.
c. 335 BC
The art of arranging things into genera and species is of no small importance and greatly serves both judgment and memory.
1704
It is universally admitted that partiality is incompatible with justice; preference given to one person over another, when there is no reason to prefer them, is unjust.
1861
The Highland Family
1824
How sweet it is to meet again after so long an absence and to renew an old friendship when one least thinks of it!
1627
It is not in my dignity to seek a victory by stealth.
1580
He who lives according to God must [...] not hate the man for the vice, nor [...] love the vice for the man, but [...] hate the vice and love the man.
c. 253-270 AD
Are you unaware that the countries of luxury are those where the people are the most miserable?
1772
Lead figure of a goddess with spear and aegis, possibly Athena
6th–5th century BCE
The only pain [virtue] requires is to calculate correctly, and to give preference to the greatest happiness.
1751
Why be surprised [...] if the divinity judges it more advantageous for me to leave life at this very moment?
4th century BC
Every common interest was immediately detached from society, opposed to it as a superior, general interest, stolen from the personal activity of the members of society.
1851/1852
Modern man represents, from a biological point of view, a contradiction of values; he sits between two chairs, he says yes and no in the same breath.
1888
Landing the Shore End of the Atlantic Cable
1866
His opulence impoverishes him by multiplying his needs.
1796
A craftsman who speaks of riches, a prosecutor who speaks of war [...]. But the rich man speaks well of riches, the king speaks coldly of a great gift he has just made, and God speaks well of God.
1670
Since a more deeply felt need gives things a greater value, [...] the value of things increases in scarcity, and decreases in abundance.
1776
I conclude, therefore, that the human soul can only know the attributes of extension and thought.
1661-1676
Head of a comic figurine
late 4th–3rd century BCE
All the governments of the world, once vested with public force, sooner or later usurp the Sovereign authority.
1762
Just as a banknote is only a promise of gold, so a concept is valuable only for the eventual perceptions it represents.
1934
The more I reflect on God, the less I can penetrate Him. Such is not the language of the learned crowd. They know nothing, they understand nothing, yet they speak of everything, and boast of it.
1763
When [our judgments] are flawed, it is always because of their relationship with previous judgments.
1805
Marble fragment of a stele (grave marker) of a youth
mid-4th century BCE
In the present as in the past, our pedagogical ideal is [...] the work of society. It is society that draws for us the portrait of the person we ought to be [...].
1922
Authority always seeks to overturn the barriers that restrain it.
1756
I do not want it to be some trifle, but the correctness of our judgments, that produces this effect on us.
c. 108 AD
We the people [...] in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility [...] and to secure for ourselves and for our posterity the blessings of liberty, we do [...] establish this Constitution.
1835-1840
Christ Shown to the People
1510–15
Often the known truth becomes fatal to the one who discovers it.
1st Century AD
The will is but a desire that is not fought, that has its object in its power, or at least believes it has [...].
1746
The more progress man makes in scientific and industrial civilization, the more his reason rebels against revealed faith [...].
1841
It seemed to me that I had gained no other profit from my attempts to learn, except to discover more and more my own ignorance.
1637
Terracotta statuette of a woman
late 4th–early 3rd century BCE
A confused violence disturbs the calm of the night, and the light with the noise dispels the shadow and the silence.
1926
It is to remedy these inconveniences that this Work is published, which can be regarded as [...] a pocket Theology.
1768
Alas! My dear Roderigo, [...] it is your wife who is coming for you.
1518-1527
Morality is the true study of humankind.
1689
Arrowhead
ca. 480–330 BCE