Month: November 2025

“It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.”

Topics: history, human, imagined

“People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.”

Topics: against, declaimed, history

“Do you believe that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?”

Topics: always, another, believe

“Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts flourish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any experienced in a town when it is under siege.”

Topics: blessings, cities, enjoyment

“God is on the side not of the heavy battalions, but of the best shots.”

Topics: aside, battalions, best

“All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; for, after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunégonde, if you hadn’t been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn’t traveled across America on foot, if you hadn’t given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn’t lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn’t be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios.”

Topics: best, events, history

history of this quote “If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.” by John Stuart Mill

Topics: contrary, history, mankind

history of this quote “The social state is at once so natural, so necessary, and so habitual to man, that…he never conceives himself otherwise than as a member of a body.” by John Stuart Mill

Topics: beyonce, habitual, history

history of this quote “There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.” by John Stuart Mill

Topics: absolutely, anything, certainty

history of this quote “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” by John Stuart Mill

Topics: amends, anymore, compassionate

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