Philosopher Quotes

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.
If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
Love and friendship exclude each other.
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
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