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Age of Enlightenment14 quotes
If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? — Voltaire · 1759I 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? — Voltaire · 1759Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need. — Voltaire · 1759There’s none so blind as they that won’t see. — Jonathan Swift · 1738Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old. — Jonathan Swift · 1727She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying. — Voltaire · 1759All 14 quotes →The Renaissance8 quotes
Speak the truth and shame the Devil. — Francois Rabelais · 1564They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. — Thomas More · 1516To laugh is proper to man. — Francois Rabelais · 1534They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters. — Thomas More · 1516True happinesse
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth, and choice. — Ben Jonson · 1600Appetite comes with eating. — Francois Rabelais · 1534All 8 quotes →Classical antiquity1 quote
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price. — Juvenal · 100