Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.
The ones who possess the spirit of discernment know how much difference can exist between two similar words, depending on the places and circumstances that accompany them.
What is man within nature? Nothing compared to the infinite. Everything compared to nothing. An intermediary between nothing and everything.
We possess neither the truth nor the good, except in part and mixed with falsehood and with evil.
Reason is very weak unless it comes to understand that there are many things that surpass it.
The last thing one knows is where to start.
The king is surrounded by people who think only of entertaining him and preventing him from thinking of himself. Because, no matter how much of a king he is, he is unhappy if he thinks about it.
Man is naturally credulous, incredulous; timid, reckless.
Description of man: dependency, desire for independence, necessity.