💬 Quotes

"We are born twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born as human beings and born as males or females."

"The truly free man wants only what he can do and does what he pleases. This is my fundamental maxim."

"Dei delitti la prima fonte è il disprezzo delle leggi."

"Non vi è libertà ogni volta che le leggi permettono che in alcuni eventi l'uomo cessi di essere persona e diventi cosa."

"I delitti son tanto più frequenti quanto è piú feroce la pena."

"Perché ogni pena non sia annessa di un violento cittadino ad un altro, essa deve essenzialmente essere pubblica, pronta, necessaria, la minima delle possibili nelle date circostanze, proporzionata de' delitti, dettata dalle leggi."

"La tortura di un reo è una cruenta prova che fa il giudice per ritrovare se un reo sia innocente o colpevole."

"Parve anco assurda la crudeltà delle pene, perché ella non mira a distruggere i delitti, ma a impedire che ne sien commessi de' simili ne' cittadini, o a cancellare l'infamia del delitto."

"God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil."

"Plants are fashioned by cultivation, men by education."

"Childhood has its own ways of seeing, thinking, and feeling, nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute our ways for theirs."

"The truly free man only wants what he can do and does what he pleases. This is my fundamental maxim."

"Hold childhood in reverence, and do not be in any hurry to judge it for good or ill."

"To live is not to breathe, it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the consciousness of our being."

"If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."

"The key to reaching high levels of performance and productivity is to develop the lifelong habit of tackling your major task first thing each morning."

"Failing to plan is planning to fail."

"One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all."

"Your ability to choose between the important and the unimportant is the key determinant of your success in life and work."

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."