“The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”
“We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.”
“Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.”
“He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.”
“What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.”
“Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.”
“By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.”
“It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.”
“He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.”
“You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.”
“To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.”
“Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.”
“Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.”
“It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.”
“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”
“He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.”
“The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.”
“The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.”
“History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.”
“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”
“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”
“Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.”
“It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.”
“Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.”
“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.”
“Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
“One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.”
“Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.”
“All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.”