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Pierre Beaumarchais

Thought and Reason
Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
3.6 · 41 votes · 165 reads
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Feelings
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
4.5 · 46 votes · 185 reads
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Art and Culture
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
3.7 · 29 votes · 69 reads
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Various
Self conquest is the greatest of victories.
5.0 · 13 votes · 45 reads
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Countries
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
3.2 · 55 votes · 26 reads
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Various
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
4.7 · 9 votes · 125 reads
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Government and Politics
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
4.6 · 45 votes · 113 reads
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Various
The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
4.7 · 27 votes · 131 reads
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Government and Politics
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
3.5 · 55 votes · 143 reads
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Art and Culture
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
4.3 · 19 votes · 146 reads
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Government and Politics
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
3.9 · 57 votes · 181 reads
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Virtues
The wisest have the most authority.
3.5 · 28 votes · 58 reads
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Society
There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.
4.2 · 34 votes · 13 reads
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Thought and Reason
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
4.1 · 6 votes · 171 reads
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Government and Politics
These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
4.0 · 17 votes · 80 reads
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Thought and Reason
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
3.6 · 48 votes · 4 reads
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Science and Technology
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
3.7 · 32 votes · 176 reads
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Virtues
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
3.1 · 12 votes · 53 reads
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Thought and Reason
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
3.1 · 40 votes · 17 reads
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Thought and Reason
Truth is its own reward.
3.3 · 27 votes · 133 reads
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Feelings
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
3.0 · 62 votes · 124 reads
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Feelings
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
4.1 · 29 votes · 49 reads
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Society
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
4.1 · 52 votes · 132 reads
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Society
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
4.1 · 5 votes · 125 reads
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Virtues
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
3.4 · 29 votes · 54 reads
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Science and Technology
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
4.3 · 13 votes · 13 reads
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Thought and Reason
Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information, never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of g
3.7 · 32 votes · 47 reads
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Virtues
Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.
3.6 · 49 votes · 72 reads
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Virtues
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
4.1 · 35 votes · 91 reads
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