Great Throughts Treasury

"The fruits of labor are the sweetest of all pleasures."

"The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones."

"The great vanity of those who do not realize, is only sensible to believe."

"The generosity of others suffer sore, as if she was responsible."

"The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities, and to make the most of one's resources."

"The hatred is no less fickle than friendship."

"The idea of bringing all men on an equality with each other has always been a pleasant dream; the law cannot equalize men in spite of nature."

"The hope is that more dupes skill."

"The hatred of the weak is not so dangerous that their friendship."

"The idea that science can and should be organized according to rules both fixed and universal is unrealistic and pernicious."

"The idle always have a mind to do something."

"The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature."

"The love of glory is great fortunes between peoples."

"The light of the dawn is not so sweet as the first glimpses of fame (glory)."

"The license extends all the virtues and all the vices."

"The lack of ambition, in large, is sometimes the source of many vices; their duties breed contempt, arrogance, cowardice and weakness."

"The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature."

"The maxims of men reveal their characters."

"The maxims of men betray their hearts."

"The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. I, on the contrary, maintain that they ought to be praised in their lifetime if they merit it; but jealousy and calumny, roused against their virtue or their talent, labor to degrade them if any one ventures to bear testimony to them. It is unjust criticism that they should fear to hazard, not sincere praise."

"The mercy is better than justice."

"The mind discerns and chooses, but it is the soul that breathes."

"The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions."

"The mind reaches great heights only by spurts."

"The mind does not need to know."

"The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate."

"The morals spoil more easily they recover."

"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success."

"The moderation of great men only sets a limit to their vices. The moderation of weak men is mediocrity."

"The most bizarre contradictions enter the same character and form."

"The need poisons the evils it cannot heal."

"The need to deliver us from the embarrassment of choice."

"The ordinary pretext of those who the misfortune of others is that they want their property."

"The perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate."

"The passions of men have learned the reason."

"The perfection of a pendulum is not to go fast, but to be resolved."

"The philosophy is the art of life difficult by trying to convince himself of its simplicity."

"The prosperity of the wicked kings are fatal to people."

"The philosophy has its modes such as clothes, music and architecture."

"The pity is less tender than love."

"The reason that philosophers and glory makes heroes, the only virtue is wise."

"The reason deceives us more often than nature."

"The reason she blushed tendencies cannot account for."

"The resistance is individual, it refers to any program."

"The science project is to prevent the difficulties of enforcement."

"The secret of the lower pleasures of nature through reason."

"The ridicule is the test of self-esteem."

"The skilled person is repelled."

"The sharpness is the genius of the masters."

"The spirits often change false maxims."