💬 Quotes

"Memory is deeply intertwined with the laws of association; we do not recall the past by chance, but according to established connections of contiguity, resemblance, and causation which give order to the stream of consciousness."

"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."

"Such duty as the subject owes the prince, even such a woman oweth to her husband."

"No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; in brief, sir, study what you most affect."

"I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; if wealthily, then happily in Padua."

"Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, thy head, thy sovereign."

"To cart her rather: she's too rough for me."

"Knowledge unfettered makes a man unfit to be a slave."

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

"You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a man was made a free man."

"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave is not liked by masters."

"I found that to set a true value on any liberty, it was necessary that I should be subjected to some privations. I was now about to begin a journey in the dark."

"Conscience cannot stand much violence. Once let the blood of a man be spilt on the ground, and the conscience, after a time, gets hardened."

"Nothing can ever be created out of nothing, by divine power."

"All nature then, as it exists by itself, is founded on two things: there are bodies and there is void in which these bodies are placed and through which they move about."

"Death is nothing to us, nor does it concern us a least, since the nature of the mind is mortal."

"Look at the stars in the sky, look at the earth, look at the sea; nothing of all this is divine, nothing is created by the gods, but everything is governed by natural laws."

"Sweet is it, when on the great sea the winds are buffeting the waters, to gaze from the land on another's great struggles."

"Custom and ingrained habit make us blind to marvels; we cease to wonder at the daily spectacle of the universe."

"Knowledge unfetters a childs mind. Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."