1670s · Skopia

Showing 63 works across all media from the 1670s

Ethics · 1677

★ 8.5

Letter

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

1676

★ 7.4

Fiction · Allegory

Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan

1678 · 400 pages

Christian sets out with a burden on his back toward the Celestial City, through the Slough of Despond and Vanity Fair. For two centuries only the Bible was read more widely in English.

★ 7.4

Treatise · Philosophical literature

Man is a social animal.

Baruch Spinoza

Ethics · 1677

★ 7.1

Epigram · Philosophical literature

What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble earth-worn, depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe.

Blaise Pascal

Pensees · 1670

★ 7.0

Treatise · Philosophical literature

It therefore comes to pass that everyone is fond of relating his own exploits and displaying the strength both of his body and his mind, and that men are on this account a nuisance one to the other.

Baruch Spinoza

Ethics · 1677

★ 6.9

Poem

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can.

Anne Bradstreet

To my Dear and Loving Husband · 1672

★ 6.9

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

Tractatus Politicus · 1677

★ 6.1

Epigram

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections · 1678

★ 6.1

Play · Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

A service beyond all recompense Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense.

Pierre Corneille

Surena · 1674

★ 6.0

Epigram · Philosophical literature

The last act is bloody, no matter how happy the rest of the play.

Blaise Pascal

Pensees · 1670

★ 5.5

Treatise · Philosophical literature

God and all the attributes of God are eternal.

Baruch Spinoza

Ethics · 1677

★ 5.5

Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do What then thou would'st.

John Milton

1671

★ 5.4

Play · Drama (play)

Death in itself is nothing, but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden

Aurenge-Zebe · 1675

★ 5.3

The things which...are esteemed as the greatest good of all…can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With those three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

Baruch Spinoza

1677

★ 5.2

Epigram

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections · 1678

★ 5.2

Epigram

In the misfortune of our best friends we often find something that is not displeasing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections · 1678

★ 5.2

Epigram · Philosophical literature

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.

Blaise Pascal

Pensees · 1670

★ 4.7

Treatise · Philosophical literature

Pride is therefore pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Baruch Spinoza

Ethics · 1677

★ 4.5

Treatise · Philosophical literature

He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.

Baruch Spinoza

Ethics · 1677

★ 4.5

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