1750s · Skopia

Showing 76 quotes from the 1750s

Novel · Satire

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

Candide · 1759

★ 7.6

Haste makes Waste.

Benjamin Franklin

1753

★ 7.5

Novel · Satire

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

Candide · 1759

★ 7.4

Little strokes fell great Oaks.

Benjamin Franklin

1750

★ 7.4

Economic literature · Philosophical literature

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

The Theory of Moral Sentiments · 1759

★ 7.1

Essay · Political literature

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Benjamin Franklin

1755

★ 7.1

Novel · Satire

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

Candide · 1759

★ 7.0

Political literature

The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said, "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Discourse on Inequality · 1755

★ 6.1

Genius without Education is like Silver in the Mine.

Benjamin Franklin

1750

★ 5.5

Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.

Benjamin Franklin

1754

★ 5.5

Old Boys have their Playthings as well as young Ones; the Difference is only in the Price.

Benjamin Franklin

1752

★ 5.5

I can with truth assure you, I heard Bulletts whistle and believe me there was something charming in the sound.

George Washington

1754

★ 5.5

Such is the delight of mental superiority , that none on, whom nature or study have conferred it, would purchase the gifts of fortune by its loss.

1751

★ 5.3

Philosophical literature

We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.

Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful · 1757

★ 5.3

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

Charles Macklin

Love a la Mode · 1759

★ 5.3

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended.

Benjamin Franklin

1750

★ 4.7

Great Estates may venture more; Little Boats must keep near Shore.

Benjamin Franklin

1751

★ 4.7

Political literature

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Discourse on Political Economy · 1755

★ 4.5

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard · 1751

★ 4.5

Anger is never without a Reason, but seldom with a good One.

Benjamin Franklin

1753

★ 3.9

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