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• “Nata Faustina con disposizioni perverse, imitò le colpe di sua madre , come se fosse stata cosa fatale il portare quel nome, e non essere sregolata. Egli è vero, che, se la fisonomia suol'essere lo specchio dell'anima, non si dovevano attendere da quella principessa direzioni molto prudenti, vedendosi dipinto sul di lei volto il genio, gli appetiti del cuore. (tomo V, p. 52)”

  Jacques Roergas de Serviez (1679–1727) said by 1727 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) first seen 1745 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: 19 November 1745

• “Dentro all'Europa il solo luogo, che per l'abbondanza delle pomici uguaglia, o fors'anche supera Lipari, e Vulcano, si è l'Isola Santorine. (vol. 3, p. 162)”

  Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729–1799) said by 1799 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A people elated by pride, or soured by discontent, is seldom qualified to form a just estimate of their actual situation.”

  Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) said by 1794 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “His character does not appear more extraordinary and unusual by the mixture of so much absurdity with so much penetration, than by his tempering such violent ambition, and such enraged fanaticism with so much regard to justice and humanity.”

  David Hume (1711–1776) said by 1776 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Voi sapete che in quasi tutte le arti sono stati i tedeschi ad eccellere di più. Ma dove hanno trovato la loro fortuna? In Germania, certamente no!”

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) said by 1791 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.”

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751) first seen 1716 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Reflections upon Exile (1716)

• “Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.”

  Edmund Burke (1729–1797) said by 1797 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “America...has neither king, nobility nor clergy established by law and it is notwithstanding, I am satisfied, at this hour, the most flourishing and the best governed spot on the face of this earth.”

  Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–1798) first seen 1763 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Address to the peasantry of Ireland, by A Traveller (14 October 1796), quoted in T. W. Moody, R. B. McDowell and C. J. Woods (eds.), The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone, 1763–98, Volume II: America, France and Bantry Ba…

• “E'en Palinurus nodded at the helm.”

  Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source

• “Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.”

  Denis Diderot (1713–1784) said by 1784 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.”

  Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Your two letters, with the enclosed memorandums of the Naimar (or Nair) captives, have been received. You did right in ordering a hundred and thirty-five of them to be circumcised, and in putting eleven of the youngest of these into the Usud Ilhye band (or class) and the remaining ninety-four into the Ahmedy Troop, consigning the whole, at the same time, to the charge of the Kilaaddar of Nugr…”

  Tipu Sultan (1751–1799) first seen 1790 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: In a letter dated 8th Eezidy (February 13, 1790) addressed to Budruz Zuman Khan. (Selected Letters of Tipoo Sultan by Kirkpatrick)., also in C. NANDAGOPAL MENON, TIPU'S OWN TESTIMONY, 1990. in Tipu Sultan: Villain or he…

• “Un maestro di scuola e un professore non educano degli individui, ma delle specie. È un pensiero che merita di essere preso in molta considerazione. (J 73)”

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) said by 1799 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Noi ci facciamo largo nel mondo non tanto col fare quanto col ricevere de' servigi: tu trovi un germoglio mezz'arido; lo pianti perché l'hai raccattato; e perché l'hai piantato, lo adacqui. (LXII; 1813, p. 196)”

  Laurence Sterne (1713–1768) said by 1768 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.”

  Joseph Addison (1672–1719) first seen 1711 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: No. 115 (12 July 1711)

  Also quoted by: ジョゼフ・アディソン (ja)

• “I thought you and he were hand-in-glove.”

  Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) said by 1745 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “You think me ambitious: ambition, alas! is composed of more rugged materials. If I were ambitious, I should not for so many years have been a prey to all the hell of conscientious scruples.”

  Horace Walpole (1717–1797) said by 1797 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Calunniate, calunniate, qualcosa resterà.”

  Voltaire (1694–1778) said by 1778 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “These Names of Virtues with their Precepts were”

  Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) said by 1790 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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

• “I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.”

  George Mason (1725–1792) first seen 1783 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to Arthur Campbell (7 May 1783)

• “L'ordine di Dio è la pienezza di tutti i nostri momenti.”

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675–1751) said by 1751 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Grim-visaged comfortless Despair.”

  Thomas Gray (1716–1771) said by 1771 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source