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Said in the 1700s
“Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.”
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) said by 1797 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[A] good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.”
George Washington (1732–1799) first seen 1790 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Steptoe Washington (5 December 1790)
“Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.”
Jeremy Collier (1650–1726) said by 1726 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest,-- Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The English are very fond of a game they call cricket. For this purpose they go into a large open field, and knock a small ball about with a piece of wood. I will not attempt to describe this game to you, it is too complicated; but it requires agility and skill, and everyone plays it, the common people and also men of rank.”
César-François de Saussure (1705–1783) said by 1783 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Les sots, les ignorans, les gens malhonnêtes, vont prendre dans les livres des idées, de la raison, des sentimens nobles et élevés, comme une femme riche va chez un marchand d'étoffes s'assortir pour son argent.”
Nicolas Chamfort (1740–1794) said by 1794 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nie wiadomo, czym się trzeba cieszyć, a czym martwić w życiu. Dobre sprowadza złe, złe sprowadza dobre.”
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) said by 1784 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“First we have to believe, and then we believe.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) said by 1799 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) first seen 1743 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1743)
“Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.”
James Macpherson (1736–1796) first seen 1207 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Samuel Johnson, quoted in James Boswell Life of Johnson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989) p. 1207.
“The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; “they will both fall into the ditch.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) first seen 1747 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 24 November 1747
“No author ever spar'd a brother.”
John Gay (1685–1732) said by 1732 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) said by 1747 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tr. E. Lee (1903) p. 190
“For it is not a saint but a sinner that is forgiven, and under the notion of a sinner. God justifieth not the godly, but the ungodly; not those that are holy already, but the unholy.”
John Wesley (1703–1791) said by 1791 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Kobieta ma wszystko przeciw sobie, nasze błędy, swoją nieśmiałość, swoją słabość; broni ją tylko jej inteligencja i uroda. Czyż więc nie powinna doskonalić jednej i drugiej? Ale uroda nie jest powszechna; ginie z powodu tysiąca wypadków, niszczeje z wiekiem; przyzwyczajenie osłabia jej znaczenie. Tylko sama inteligencja jest prawdziwą szansą płci.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) said by 1778 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“First, because the greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) first seen 1771 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech on the Middlesex Election (February 1771)
“That life is long which answers life's great end.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pycha jest zwierciadłem, które pomniejsza nasze wady, a powiększa nasze zalety.”
Monteskiusz (1689–1755) said by 1755 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am as sober as a judge.”
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) said by 1754 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Za to, co kosztuje jeden nałóg można wychować dwoje dzieci.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) said by 1790 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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
“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)
“Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it; and the greater power he ascribes to faith, the more he deprives himself of that power which God has given to him when He endowed him with the gift of reason. Reason is a particle of the Creator's divinity. When we use it with a spirit of humility and justice we are certain to please the Giver of that precious gift.”
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) said by 1798 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.”
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) first seen 1701 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Kentish Petition (1701), Addenda. l. 11.