All Sayings
74 sayings found from the Early Modern era
The universe is an image of God.
Books, the children of the brain.
The greatest crime is to be poor.
Desire is the very essence of man.
Knowledge makes a bloody entrance.
I have made kings into my porters.
All wealth is the product of labor.
The sword of justice has no sheath.
The sea is vast and full of wonders.
We are easily duped by what we love.
I can think of nothing else than this machine.
I can assert that the Natives are a very cowardly people.
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
I will be what I ought to be, and if I am not, I will be nothing.