Epigram · Philosophical literatureWhat 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 PascalPensees · 1670★ 7.0
LetterWhat a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment... Inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.Thomas Jefferson1786★ 6.2
Political literature · Historical literatureIf only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Gulag Archipelago · 1973★ 6.0
EssayI find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 5.5
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