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Publilius Syrus21 quotes
A rolling stone gathers no moss. — Publilius Syrus · 43 BCYou should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot. — Publilius Syrus · 43 BCIt is a bad plan that admits of no modification. — Publilius Syrus · 43 BCAnyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. — Publilius Syrus · 43 BCFor a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous. — Publilius Syrus · 43 BCTo accept a favor is to sell your freedom. — Publilius Syrus · 43 BCAll 21 quotes →Blaise Pascal20 quotes
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. — Blaise Pascal · 1662We never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience. — Blaise Pascal · 1662God is, or He is not. But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separates us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?... If you win, you win everything; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is. — Blaise Pascal · 1662What 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 · 1670The last act is bloody, no matter how happy the rest of the play. — Blaise Pascal · 1670We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart. — Blaise Pascal · 1670All 20 quotes →Francois de La Rochefoucauld17 quotes
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld · 1678Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld · 1678In the misfortune of our best friends we often find something that is not displeasing. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld · 1678The head is ever the dupe of the heart. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld · 1678If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld · 1678The pleasure of love is in the loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we arouse. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld · 1678All 17 quotes →Martial5 quotes
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. — Martial · 103A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere. — Martial · 103Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure. — Martial · 103Wise men don't say, "I shall live to do that". Tomorrow's life's too late; live today. — Martial · 103Neither fear your death's day nor long for it. — Martial · 103Charles Peguy1 quote
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. — Charles Peguy · 1943Richard Whately1 quote
Honesty is the best policy; but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man. — Richard Whately · 1854