4.6 · 55 votes
Their most read quotes
3.7 · 51 votes
Various
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.3.0 · 47 votes · 150 reads
Various
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.4.3 · 13 votes · 81 reads
Government and Politics
I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.3.7 · 50 votes · 66 reads
Society
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.3.5 · 21 votes · 170 reads
Feelings
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.4.2 · 47 votes · 195 reads
Art and Culture
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.3.0 · 27 votes · 135 reads
Virtues
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.3.8 · 38 votes · 84 reads
Thought and Reason
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.3.5 · 32 votes · 64 reads
Thought and Reason
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.4.2 · 52 votes · 173 reads
Various
People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.3.3 · 61 votes · 34 reads
Thought and Reason
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.3.0 · 57 votes · 133 reads
Science and Technology
The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.4.2 · 38 votes · 12 reads
Government and Politics
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.3.2 · 20 votes · 17 reads
Science and Technology
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.3.0 · 28 votes · 0 reads
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