Philosopher Quotes

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
It is natural to die as to be born.
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