13 ideas
7914 | To try to be wise all on one's own is folly [Rochefoucauld] |
7118 | La Rochefoucauld's idea of disguised self-love implies an unconscious mind [Rochefoucauld, by Sartre] |
7912 | Judging by effects, love looks more like hatred than friendship [Rochefoucauld] |
7915 | Supreme cleverness is knowledge of the real value of things [Rochefoucauld] |
13550 | To be always happy is to lack knowledge of one half of nature [Seneca] |
7917 | Realising our future misery is a kind of happiness [Rochefoucauld] |
7913 | Virtue doesn't go far without the support of vanity [Rochefoucauld] |
541 | Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias] |
13549 | Nothing bad can happen to a good man [Seneca] |
7916 | True friendship is even rarer than true love [Rochefoucauld] |
9299 | We are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring [Rochefoucauld] |
13548 | The ocean changes in volume in proportion to the attraction of the moon [Seneca] |
542 | Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias] |