There is a difference between apposition, mixtion, temperation, and confusion.
c. 253-270 AD
Nothing is ever so desperate that some door to hope does not remain open, however weak or illusory it may be.
1518
[...] poetry is to become reasonable, which is its way of losing all reason for being.
1926
The need that citizens have for one another places them all in a state of mutual dependence.
1776
Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a maenad
late 4th century BCE
[...] nothing being so pleasing to the Eye as Truth is to the Mind, nothing being so deformed, nor so incompatible with the Understanding as a Lie.
1689
[He] only wanted to satisfy his resentment; a passion that [...] always repays indulgence poorly.
100-120 AD
The honest man refuses to sacrifice a citizen, even with justice. [...] he prefers to be able to recall that he spared him, when he could have destroyed him.
81 BC
Everywhere in that country they chop turnips and swedes with the same care and haste as they thresh wheat.
1774
The Man of Sorrows
ca. 1430
Its [moral] binding force consists in the existence of a mass of feeling which must be broken through in order to violate our standard of right, and which [...] manifests itself [...] in the form of remorse.
1861
Just by seeing you, he will know you are a man. Are you a good one? Are you a bad one? He will know, if he has the talent to distinguish the good from the bad.
c. 108 AD
[Some doctrines are] among those that can only be taught by word of mouth, and a written discourse on the matter would be as much or more useless and cumbersome.
1642-1645
'Our god is money, our religion is profit'.
1896
Relief from casket
670 BCE - 330 CE
[...] when I have a perception, an idea, I feel: and every time I discern a circumstance in that perception, I judge. This is a capital point that must never be lost from sight.
1803
An honorable life is not [...] a greater good than an honorable death, since virtue does not increase its own value.
63-64 AD
April, the honor of the green, yellow, and blue-green meadows [...].
1546/1563
Vanity [...] consists in such an immoderate display of one's own advantages [...] that it can only offend others by shocking, without measure, their ambition and their secret vanity.
1751
The Circumcision
1511
People adopted the gags, and only gave them up when they recognized their uselessness, or when they grew tired of them.
1748
He had contemplated with a penetrating eye the dreadful cataclysms of what is called world history, and recognized the cruelty of nature.
1872
In the case [of an abstract materialism], matter is the analogue of God, for it is conceived within the same framework and merely takes the place of God.
1841
To be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
1840
Bronze patera (shallow bowl with handle)
late 4th–early 3rd century BCE
He lets all beings evolve according to their destinies, and stands, himself, at the still center of all destinies.
4th century BC
Of all the peoples in the world, the most difficult to contain and to direct is a nation of office-seekers.
1835-1840
Experience teaches me what exists and how it exists, but never that it must necessarily be so and not otherwise. It can therefore never make known the nature of things in themselves.
1783
Softness had, in the course of a long peace, weakened the nation's courage, pleasures had corrupted it, [...] and adversity alone could reawaken the ancient virtue.
1746
Portrait of a Man
1750
It is very true that a well-governed society takes advantage of all vices; but it is not true that these vices are necessary for the happiness of the world.
1764
[The one] [...] who has never ceased his whole life to do useful and honest deeds, is truly the victor.
4th century BC
It is impossible for the members of a society to recognize a rule of conduct as obligatory without reacting against any act that violates it.
1893
There is no one who does not desire to live in security and sheltered from fear, as much as possible; yet this situation is impossible as long as everyone can do everything as they please.
1670
Portrait of a Woman
1790
The effectively measurable part of the real remains nonetheless limited, and the law, considered as absolute, retains the character of a metaphysical hypothesis.
1919
The multiplicity and diversity of sensory goods are the reason we recognize their vanity less, and are always in the hope of finding the true good we desire within them.
1674-1675
In a word, one will perceive without difficulty that Theologians make Religion and that Religion never has anything but Theologians as its object.
1768
Falsehood never dictated my lies; they all came from weakness, but that is a very poor excuse for me.
1776-1778
The Virgin Annunciate
possibly 1445–50
Often we have an uncommon facility for conceiving certain things because we have conceived them before, without remembering it.
1704
To its [history's] faith are committed the examples of our ancestors, the vicissitudes of things, the foundations of civil prudence [...].
1623
[Illusions] make them believe that things will be easy, that they are pushed from behind by a modern god called Progress, that a modern providence, called History, is doing the bulk of the effort for them.
1934
They live more by memory than by hope; [...] Hence their loquacity.
329-323 BC
María Teresa, Infanta of Spain
mid-17th century
It is weakness, even more than foolishness, that in most governments perpetuates abuses.
1758
A hasty prosperity followed by rapid successes is usually suspect and threatens a prompt change.
1636
Since no material cause presented itself to the senses, one would have attributed it to its opposite, the immaterial.
1643-1649
The just shall live by faith.
1263-1264
A Man and a Woman on Horseback
ca. 1653–54