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Said in the 1600s
“The people of your world became so stupid and rude that my companions and I no longer enjoyed teaching them. You must surely have heard of us: we were called oracles, nymphs, spirits, fairies, household gods, lemures, larvas, lamias, sprites, water-nymphs, incubi, shades, spirits of the dead, specters and ghosts.”
Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) said by 1655 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Il tanto diventa poco se si desidera ancora un po' di più.”
Francisco de Quevedo (1584–1645) said by 1645 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.”
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) said by 1600 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Confesso che sono innamorata, e tuttavia giuro che non so cosa sia amore. Sento i miei pensieri sconvolti, la mia vista instabile, i miei capelli non so quanto curati o trascurati, i miei sonni interrotti e pieni di sogni, la mia veglia triste e piena di sospiri, me stessa in ogni cosa diversa da me stessa. Se questo è amore, vorrei che non fosse mai stato inventato.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“La sovranità d'un uomo è nascosta nella scienza.”
Francesco Bacone (1561–1626) said by 1626 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dove c'è la forza c'è per lo più la superbia e da questa nasce la prepotenza. (p. 491)”
Mateo Alemán (1547–1614) said by 1614 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.”
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Translation by Stillman Drake in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957)
“[...] la passione amorosa si vince soltanto col fuggirla [...]. (XXXIV, 2007)”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This indigested vomit of the Sea, Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A stout man's heart breaks bad luck.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Keep your Meetings, waiting in the Light, which from the Lord Jesus Christ doth come; so will ye receive Power from him, and have the refreshing Springs of Life opened to your Souls, and be kept sensible of the tender Mercies of the Lord.”
George Fox (1624–1691) first seen 1655 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epistle 105 (1655)
“La grande prova d'amore è obbedire alla volontà della donna amata. (II, VI)”
Molière (1622–1673) said by 1673 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And of universal nature, the notion I would offer, should be something like this. Nature is the aggregate of the bodies, that make up the world, in its present state, considered as a principle, by virtue whereof, they act and suffer, according to the laws of motion, prescribed by the author of things.”
Robert Boyle (1627–1691) said by 1691 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dear Father, get upon my shoulders streight, Nor shall your Burthen be to me a Weight. What ever chance, one common Danger we Shall equal share, to both one safety be: I shall Ascanius my Companion chuse; My Wife must follow, but some distance use.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) said by 1676 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Chi usa la roba in mala parte, alla morte vede le sue partite.”
Giulio Cesare Croce (1550–1609) said by 1609 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When sending his Short Treatise to his Amsterdam friends he begs of them to be sure that nothing but the good of their neighbours will ever induce them to communicate its doctrines to others.”
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A. Wolf, from the introduction to Spinoza's Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being (1910)
“And he that will to bed go sober Falls with the leaf in October.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Several particular maxims... are as powerful, although false, in carrying away belief, as those the most true.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) said by 1662 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sacraments and ceremonies of the gospel operate not without the concurrent actions and moral influences of the suscipient.”
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) first seen 1651 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Holy Dying (1651), chapter 5, section 4.
“Con la tua benedizione dà vita alle mie parole, affinché coloro per i quali le ho scritte, ne traggano quelle sante ispirazioni che loro desidero.”
Francesco di Sales (1567–1622) said by 1622 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Music, and mood, she loves, but love she hates (As curious ladies do, their public cates), This train, with meteors, comets, lightenings, The dreadful presence of our empress sings: Which grant for ever (O eternal Night) Till virtue flourish in the light of light.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) said by 1695 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Quare Opium facit dormire: … Quia est in eo Virtus dormitiva.”
Molière (1622–1673) first seen 1673 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Le Malade Imaginaire (1673), Act III, sc. iii