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“L’art de la parenthèse est un des grands secrets de l’éloquence dans la Société.”
Nicolas Chamfort (1740–1794) said by 1794 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
Isaac Newton (1643–1727) said by 1727 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in Rules for methodizing the Apocalypse, Rule 9, from a manuscript published in The Religion of Isaac Newton (1974) by Frank E. Manuel, p. 120, as quoted in Socinianism And Arminianism : Antitrinitarians, Calvinis…
“Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.”
John Gay (1685–1732) said by 1732 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My aim is to fix this principle, that limitations on a crown ought to be carried as far as it is necessary to secure the liberties of a people; and that all such limitations may subsist, without weakening or endangering monarchy.”
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751) said by 1751 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let us not limit the resources of nature; they are infinite, especially when reinforced by great art.”
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1751) said by 1751 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sa réputation s'affermira toujours, parce qu'on ne le lit guère.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) first seen 1765 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dante" (1765)
“Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses[.]”
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) said by 1798 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Story of My Life (trans. Sartarelli/Hawkes 2001), Preface, p. 10
“Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue.”
George Mason (1725–1792) first seen 1783 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to William Cabell (6 May 1783)
“Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) said by 1799 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What have I lost by my forefathers’ fault! Why was I not the twentieth by descent From a long restive race of droning kings?”
John Dryden (1631–1700) said by 1700 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) said by 1745 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“However, it is not unlikely that the Arabs, who received from the Indians the numeral figures (which the Greeks knew not), did from them also receive the use of them, and many profound speculations concerning them, which neither Latins nor Greeks know, till that now of late we have learned them from thence. From the Indians also they might learn their algebra, rather than from Diophantus.”
John Wallis (1616–1703) first seen 1685 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: John Wallis, in 1685 quoted in :Heeffer, Albrecht. ‘The Reception of Ancient Indian Mathematics by Western Historians’. In Ancient Indian Leaps into Mathematics, edited by B. S. Yadav and Man Mohan, pp. 135-152. Birkhäu…
“What may be very entertaining in company with ignorant people may be tiresome to those who know more of the matter.”
James Burgh (1714–1775) said by 1775 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happens to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.”
William Shenstone (1714–1763) said by 1763 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever.”
Adam Smith (1723–1790) said by 1790 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like Augustus, Diocletian may be considered as the founder of a new empire.”
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) said by 1794 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you should ever come to Cambridge, or near Head Quarters, I shall be happy to see a person so favoured by the Muses, and to whom Nature has been so liberal and beneficent in her dispensations. I am, with great Respect, etc.”
George Washington (1732–1799) said by 1799 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It must cut up Liberty by the root and poison the Fountain of Publick Security; and who that has an English heart can ever be weary of asserting Liberty?”
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1778) first seen 1739 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Denouncing corruption in a draft speech (November 1739), quoted in Basil Williams, The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Volume I (1913), p. 80
“My Father, it is dark!" "Child, take my hand, Cling close to me; I'll lead thee through the land, Trust my all-seeing care, so shalt thou stand 'Midst glory bright above." Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?”
François Fénelon (1651–1715) said by 1715 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Chez les peuples vraiment libres les femmes sont libres et adorées, et mènent une vie aussi douce que le mérite leur faiblesse intéressante.”
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767–1794) said by 1794 at the latest wikiquote:fr, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.”
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) said by 1774 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am made to combat crime, not to govern it. The time is not here where good men can serve their patrie with impunity; the defenders of liberty will only be outcasts, as long as the horde of rogues is in control.”
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) said by 1794 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there 's delight in love, 't is when I see That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph and partake the gale?”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source