Political literature · Philosophical literatureIn such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain... And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.Thomas HobbesLeviathan · 1651★ 9.6
Play · Tragedy (play)This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.William ShakespeareHamlet · 1616★ 9.5
Play · Tragic playHeav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.William Congreve1697★ 8.8
Play · Tragedy (play)To be or not to be—that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep— No more—and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep— To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.William ShakespeareHamlet · 1616★ 8.7
Sonnet · PoemShall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.William ShakespeareShakespeare's Sonnets · 1609★ 8.6
Political literature · Philosophical literatureCuriosity...is a Lust of the mind.Thomas HobbesLeviathan · 1651★ 8.0
Poem · Epic poem · Religious literatureLong is the way And hard, that out of Hell leads up to Light.John MiltonParadise Lost · 1667★ 7.8
Poem · Epic poem · Religious literatureO fairest of Creation, last and best Of all God's works.John MiltonParadise Lost · 1667★ 7.8
Scientific literatureEvery body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.Isaac NewtonPrincipia · 1687★ 7.5
NovelLove and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.Miguel de CervantesDon Quixote · 1615★ 7.3
Scientific literatureMoreover, in a system of two bodies mutually acting upon each other, since the differences between their centres and the common centre of gravity of both are reciprocally as the bodies, the relative motions of those bodies, whether of approaching to or of receding from that centre, will be equal junong themselves. Therefore since the changes which happen to motions are equal and directed to contrary parts.Isaac NewtonPrincipia · 1687★ 7.3
Epigram · Philosophical literatureThe heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.Blaise PascalPensees · 1662★ 7.3
Play · Tragedy (play)What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable; in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals-And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?William ShakespeareHamlet · 1616★ 7.3
Treatise · Political literatureWhere-ever Law ends, Tyranny begins.John LockeTwo Treatises of Government · 1690★ 7.2
Sonnet · PoemBut thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.William ShakespeareShakespeare's Sonnets · 1609★ 7.2
Play · Tragedy (play)Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.William ShakespeareMacbeth · 1616★ 7.2
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