Life & Aging Sayings
33 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 33 authors
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The only good thing in life is to be happy.
I would rather sleep in the same bed with a toad than with a Frenchman.
The age of reason is the age of experiment.
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
The cello is a stupid instrument.
Life is a beautiful thing, even with all its troubles.
My music is best understood by children and old people.
I've dispatc'd, my dear madam, this scrap of a letter, To say that Miss — — is very much better. A Regular Doctor no longer she lacks, And therefore I've sent her a couple of Quacks.
God gave the world to men in common; but since he gave them reason to make use of it to the best advantage of life, and convenience, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated.
The Romans, in order to hold Capua, Alba, and Ostia, did not destroy them, but gave them their own laws and left them free, and they did not hold them without difficulty.
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank, thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
What is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which various persons, disguised in various costumes and masks, walk about and play each one his part, until at last the producer gives the sign for them to leave the stage?
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal…