Wisdom Sayings
68 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 68 authors
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Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other.
I am not the man I once was. I do not want to go back in time, to be the second son, the second man.
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
For they think it a very unjust thing to make a great company of thieves because a man happens to be in want.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
It is better to die in freedom than to live in chains.
The development of the world is the development of the idea of freedom.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
The greatest scandal of the world is the one we are all guilty of: the fact that we are born.
The only way to escape the personal consequences of freedom is to give up the very freedom itself.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Man is mortal, that may be; but let us die resisting, and if we die, let us die with the certainty that we have not betrayed justice.
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
The Americans are a people who are always talking about liberty, but they are also a people who are always ready to give it up.
Guilt is a tool of the enslaver.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.
We are moving toward a world in which the word 'freedom' will become obsolete.
The essence of friendship is that it is a relationship of equals, but equality is always a precarious balance.
A crime is a crime because it is punished; it is not punished because it is a crime.
The greatest punishment for a man is to know that he has done wrong, but to be unable to atone for it.
I am not a man who has any great respect for the law, when the law is a ass.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.