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Age of Enlightenment8 quotes
Censorship is crucial for preserving morals but useless for restoring them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little. — Edmund Burke · 1790Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. — Edward Gibbon · 1781Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. — Edmund Burke · 1777There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity, — the Law of Nature and of Nations. — Edmund Burke · 1794Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails,
And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1764All 8 quotes →Classical antiquity4 quotes
What I say is that "just" or "right" means nothing but what is to the interest of the stronger party. — Thrasymachus · 375 BCIf not becoming, don’t do it. If not true, don’t say it. Let these be your fixed principles. — Marcus Aurelius · 180No one ever suddenly became depraved. — Juvenal · 127There exists a law, inborn of our hearts by natural intuition, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right. — Cicero · 52 BCOld Testament Era2 quotes
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. — God · 570 BCWoe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! — Isaiah 5:20 · 681 BCEarly Christianity1 quote
The Lord says in the gospel; "I am the Truth." He does not say "I am custom." Therefore, when the truth is made manifest, custom must give way to truth. — Libosus of Vaga · 400The Renaissance1 quote
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. — William Shakespeare · 1616