General Sayings
50 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 50 authors
Category
Holiday
When one is painting one does not think.
I see this priest for the first time.
All true knowledge of God is born of obedience.
Beware of that smooth, plausible, pleasing voice, 'You may be saved, though you keep your sins.'
What goes up must come down.
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what has been proved.
It is not often that a man has the opportunity to be useful to his fellow citizens without any personal risk.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
It is not the eye that sees, but the soul that sees through the eye.
Experiment, without reason, is blind; reason, without experiment, is lame.
The earth belongs in usufruct to the living; that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.
I will make a difference, and I will be worthy of my place.
I like to praise and to reward, but I detest to punish.
It is better to have one good admiral than ten bad ones.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by epigrams.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
The imagination is nothing but decaying sense.
Men are always more easily deceived when they are trying to deceive others.
The English are busy; they have no time to be polite.