top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man."
Standard
Customized
More
"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."
Friendship
"Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other."
Beauty
"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker."
Design
"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."
Beauty
"Everything in the world is purchased by labor."
Labor
"Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions."
Man
"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue."
Man
"The law always limits every power it gives."
Power
"This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society."
Friendship
"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."
Destruction
More
"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
Author Name
Personal Development
"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Genius: the superhuman in man."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Men exist for the sake of one another."
Author Name
Personal Development
bottom of page