It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. |
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has |
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has |
Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have. |
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. |
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. |
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. |
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. |
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. |
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. |
The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations |
The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body. |
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. |
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once |
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. |