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- In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
- Meister Eckhart
- A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.
- Jacques Bossuet (1627 - 1704)
- The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
- Jean De la Fontaine (1621 - 1695)
- When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.
- Paul De Gondi
- Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
- Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
- The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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