Posted by: Cheope
The knowledge of effects and the ignorance of the causes produced astrology.
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The knowledge of effects and the ignorance of the causes produced astrology.
The Italians do not have customs but traditions.
Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.
People are but ridiculous when they desire to appear as what they are not.
Devil, don't you know you are as beautiful as an Angel?
Men are not ashamed of the injuries they may create, but of those they may receive.
Oh hope, hope; what a pleasant childhood deceipt.
One doesn't live in this world but of impudence.
The more one keeps count of time, the more one dispairs in having enough of it; the more one squanders of it, the more one belives it as exceeding.
The faculty of imagination ... is the main source of human happiness.