Quotes · Skopia

21 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Place·Bourgogne-Franche-Comte✕clear

An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted.

1878

★ 8.4

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

1864

★ 7.0

Philosophical literature · Political literature

God is stupidity and cowardice; God is hypocrisy and falsehood. God is tyranny and poverty; God is evil. For as long as men bow before altars, mankind will remain damned, the slaves of kings and priests.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The System of Economic Contradictions · 1846

★ 6.0

Autobiography and memoir

One of the best things about love is just recognizing a man's step when he climbs the stairs.

1941

★ 4.4

Take away time is money, and what is left of England? Take away cotton is king, and what is left of America?

Les Miserables · 1862

★ 3.9

I have freed my soul.

Bernard of Clairvaux

1152

★ 3.8

Play · Tragedy (play) · Drama (play)

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

1838

★ 3.8

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

1147

★ 3.7

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Property is theft.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

1840

★ 3.7

Love comes from blindness, Friendship comes from knowledge.

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

1665

★ 3.6

The noblest conquest man has ever made.

Georges Louis Leclerc

1753

★ 3.6

Wine may well be considered the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

1873

★ 3.6

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small, it kindles the great.

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

1665

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

1986

★ 3.5

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers.

Les Miserables · 1862

★ 3.0

Whether you are dealing with an animal or a child, to convince is to weaken.

1932

★ 2.7

One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor and invisible labor.

Les Miserables · 1862

★ 2.2

Chance favors only the prepared mind.

1854

★ 2.0

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

1862

★ 1.3

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

1932

★ 1.0

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