“The public is governed as it reasons; its own prerogative is foolish speech and that of its governors is foolish action.”— Nicolas Chamfort, Maximes et Pensées, #503Share
“The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.”— Nicolas ChamfortShare
“Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.”— Nicolas ChamfortShare
“Money is the greatest concern for small characters, but is nothing but the smallest for great characters.”— Nicolas ChamfortShare
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.”— William ShakespeareShare
“Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.”— Marcus AureliusShare
“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”— AristotleShare
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”— AristotleShare
“I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and noblest driving force behind scientific research.”— Albert EinsteinShare
“There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.”— Albert EinsteinShare
