Baruch Spinoza
View AuthorUnderstanding is the beginning of approval.
Baruch Spinoza
View AuthorExperience has shown us that there is nothing more difficult for a person to master than their own language.
Baruch Spinoza
View AuthorIdeas are not mute paintings on a slate; an idea, insofar as it is an idea, includes an affirmation or a negation.
Baruch Spinoza
View AuthorPeace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, trust, and justice.
Baruch Spinoza
View AuthorThe most important activity that a human being can achieve is to learn to understand, because to understand is to be free.
Bruce Springsteen
View AuthorFriendship prevents you from slipping into the abyss.
Germaine de Staël
View AuthorFreedom is incompatible with love. A lover is always a slave.
Germaine de Staël
View AuthorWhat is happiness but the development of our faculties?
Germaine de Staël
View AuthorDisappointment walks smiling behind enthusiasm.
Germaine de Staël
View AuthorWomen never measure sacrifices; neither their own, nor those of others.
Germaine de Staël
View AuthorTo the intelligent, one can convince; to the foolish, persuade.
Germaine de Staël
View AuthorPain always delivers on its promise.