| Quotes |
Topic |
| Force | Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force. |
| History | Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different. |
| Humanity | man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. |
| Influence | If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed. |
| Inspirational | If I had more time I would write a shorter letter. |
| Inspirational | Law, without force, is impotent. |
| Inspirational | The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first. |
| Inspirational | All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone. |
| Jesting | A jester, a bad character. |
| Language | Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect. |
| Liberty | It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants. |
| Love | We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. |
| Love | The heart has its reasons which the mind cannot comprehend. |
| Miscellaneous | If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. |
| Moderation | To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. |
| Nature | Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. |
| Novelty | It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. |
| Opinion | Opinion is the queen of the world. |
| Opinion | He adopts the opinion of others like a monk in the Sorbonne. |
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